Wednesday
2
December
2009
First edition of the
TimberDESIGN e-News
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Welcome to the first issue of the free TimberDESIGN Australasia e-Newsletter – forwarded because you are either a subscriber or regular recipient of the magazine, for whom we have an email address.
The goal is to add value by providing timber design + build news and project information more regularly than via the quarterly printed edition.
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SUMMER HEADLINES
The December TimberDESIGN will include:
- Sacrificial roof system for forest living
- Timber’s role at the National Portrait Gallery
- Warming an exoskeleton with wood
- Living on a veranda – Kiwi style
- New canopy for a memorial
- What happened to the ‘shoe-box’
- Britain’s ‘greenest’ pool
- Post-tensioned box beam solution
- Timber cladding in the Aussie suburbs
- The Lords’ prayer is answered
- Jumbo ply is coming
- Classic ‘refuge and eyre’
- The Green Alternative – free seminars
- Tulipwood blossoms
- Quirky designer who rejoices in the ‘why’
- Wood Guide for specifiers
Now viewable for e-Zine subscribers
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Noose tightens on
Green Building Council
Regular readers will know this magazine is no friend of green building councils that discriminate against all forms of timber except those carrying the FSC stamp of sustainability.
In November the GBCA came under unprecedented and, hopefully, policy-changing pressure from the Federal Government and two states to give equal recognition to all credible forestry certification schemes. Read more
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Free hardwood seminars
in February
The American hardwood industry is bringing its sustainability story to Australia and New Zealand, with half-day seminars planned for the end of February, including the launch of a new ‘Green Card’ for specifiers.
In Melbourne 23 Feb and Auckland 25 Feb, the program is aimed at interior and furniture designers, architects and the wider design & build business. Registration essential. Read more
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Faster and greener
alternative to concrete
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is one of the fastest-growing massive building systems in Europe, and after a long wait it looks as though Australian building designers will soon have access to this innovative multi-storey, carbon-storing, rapid-erection technology.
“The material is so brilliantly accurate,” says the designer of the world’s tallest all-timber apartment building. Read more – subscribers only
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Too many design awards?
Awards are an important promotional platform for timber design, but with so many architectural competitions, and so few sponsors to go round, maybe some ‘culling’ will strengthen the species?
Organisers of the Australian Timber Design Awards this year broke the national contest into a series of state-based events, plus national awards. Maybe one professionally run event with a high-profile award ceremony would be a more effective solution for all concerned. Perhaps even a combined trans-Tasman competition? Read more
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Post-tensioned box
beams span pool
The new indoor swimming pool facility in Auckland showcases the innovative use of LVL and post-tensioned plywood box beams.
It also won the commercial engineering category in the recent NZ Wood Timber Design Awards. Read more – subscribers only
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Dealing with living
in a forest clearing
Two buildings are inhabited: the larger for the family, the smaller for friends or the kids once bigger, with peripheral decks to connect to the clearing and sacrificial roofing to protect from the eucalypt trees and collect rainwater.
Materials were chosen to blend with the surrounding bush and dappled forest light, including oiled cedar, simply finished metals and eucalypt decking outside. Read more – subscribers only
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