Timber Design Initiatives delivers Europe-wide approaches to education, innovation and demonstration of best practice in the use of #timber in #architecture.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined November 2015
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The Bicycle Garage / Tengbom archdaily.com/965287/the-bic… via @archdaily A recyclable bicycle repository: the circular economy shape of things to come in every city? #masstimber #masstimberacademy #timberarchitecture #timberengineering #sustainability
World’s largest earthquake simulator upgraded to improve tall structure safety newcivilengineer.com/latest/… potentially a positive step forward for mass timber structures in seismic regions #masstimber #masstimberacademy #timberarchitecture #timberengineering
Sustainable £7m STEM facility completes in Bristol architectsdatafile.co.uk/new… #uckfield The switch to mass timber continues: so many benefits #masstimberacademy #masstimber #timberarchitecture #timberengineering #engineeredtimber
Echo by Coldefy selected winner of consultation for Euralille archivibe.com/echo-by-coldef… The way to go: French Government plans for all new public buildings to use bio-based materials proceeding apace. A lesson for HS2's new stations here? #masstimberacademy #timberarchitecture
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Beautiful modern mass timber tower! Definitely a landmark for CLT! #masstimber #masstimberacademy #clt #timberarchitecture #timberengineering #engineeredtimber linkedin.com/posts/activity-…
Do you want beautiful, sustainable and safe tall buildings? Use wood | Rowan Moore theguardian.com/commentisfre… #masstimber # masstimberacademy #clt – at Edinburgh, Scotland
Peter Wilson retweeted
...slagging off architects for ‘not doing’ these things is not helpful. Slag them off for failing to advocate for change and for failing to convince their clients to value these services enough to PAY FOR THEM. Businesses that go bust whilst screaming sustainability into the... – at Islington, London
A voice of sanity in the BBC wilderness, now substituted for telling it like it really is.
‘He made those who struggled to keep to the rules feel like fools and has allowed many more to assume they can now flout them. The prime minister knows all this and has chosen to ignore it.’
Savage brilliance from @maitlis #newsnight
Kier to deliver £22m school of engineering for University of Edinburgh @ScoConstructNow scottishconstructionnow.com/… Another 'could be anywhere' formula building: not exactly an exemplar of 21st-century innovation in engineering - or sustainability. #architecture #engineering
Just about sums it up. – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Microlibrary Warak Kayu features a hammock-style floor and a swing dezeen.com/2020/04/13/microl… via @dezeen There are so many things about this project to like - and learn from. #timber #timberarchitecture #timber engineering
Designer picked for Canadian timber tower theconstructionindex.co.uk/n… via @tcindex Optimum height and use? Many similar solutions likely whilst architects & engineers learn more about what CLT is capable of. #masstimberacademy #masstimber #timberarchitecture #timberengineering
Underwriters lag behind changing construction methods theconstructionindex.co.uk/n… via @tcindex They've had 40 years to catch up with what is now very standard technology - what's their real beef with timber frame? #timberconstruction #timberarchitecture #timberengineering
Looks like New York is (slowly, finally) catching up with mass timber developments elsewhere in the USA. it's small, but it's a start #masstimberacacademy #masstimber #timberarchitecture #timberengineering #clt
New York City’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) building is rising in Brooklyn: Frame 283 - a five story residential building by Loadingdock5 guiding-architects.net/timbe… #masstimber #woodconstruction #PassiveHouse #NYCarchitecture #brooklynarchitecture #sustainability #lowcarbon
ALT 10-unit apartment building with CLT structure, built according to Passive House standards and with solar panels in Clinton Hill / Brooklyn. Photo by ©Loadingdock 5
Large "sail-like canopy" topped Burning Man installation Archaeopteryx dezeen.com/2020/03/19/archae… via @dezeen Maybe not the quickest example of offsite timber design & manufacture, but surely one of the most fun! #timberarchitecture #timberconstruction #masstimberacademy
Moriyama & Teshima Design New Honey Bee Research Center in Canada archdaily.com/935700/moriyam… via @archdaily Delighted to see the design hasn't used the 'bees-mean-hexagons' cliche: looking forward to seeing the mass timber details of this one! #masstimberacademy #timberengineering
Tomoaki Uno Architects creates peaceful home to be "healing architecture" dezeen.com/2020/03/16/tomoak… via @dezeen The tranquility of wood. Need to find out more about Itakura construction method - and how to curve a handrail so beautifully! #masstimberacademy #timberarchitecture
Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti dies of coronavirus dezeen.com/2020/03/16/italy-… via @dezeen So sad to see this great talent succumb to this awful virus. #architecture #architects
