Aiming high with glulam

Andrew Waugh and Matthew Wells spell out their timber solution for apartments rising to nearly 100m.

Article from the TRADA Timber Industry Yearbook 2014 

This excerpt is taken from the recently published book, Timber Rising: Global Perspectives on Mass Timber Advances for the Tall Building Industry, produced by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in conjunction with the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

This article is part of a new…

Prepared by Alinea in association with TRADA member Engenuiti, this document presents two detailed exemplar cost models, one each for a CLT and concrete design for a seven-storey private residential building. The scheme has been designed with both a timber and concrete solution in mind at the outset, for ease of…