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Hybrid Structures in High-Rise Buildings: The Use of Appropriate Materials

2023

Architectural and engineering evolution has seldomly been characterised by a smooth transition, but rather by rapid changes. Currently, we are living in the time of a "sustainability revolution" and "timber renaissance". Based on the recently emerging awareness for sustainability, a new architectural and construction language has developed. This requires a complete review of the old materials used in the last two centuries in favour of more "sustainable" and "natural" ones. This new approach has sparked a dynamic debate about construction materials. Since wood is the only regrowing building material, there is a natural inclination to believe that building with wood is good for the environment. But under which conditions is this really the case? What should we build with wood? What is the best way to achieve an optimal solution? This article examines the current state of the building industry with a holistic approach, exploring the use of structural timber and its combination with other materials for the design of medium and high-rise buildings.

Hybrid wood-based structural systems for multi-storey buildings

Beyond their Limits, 2016

The city of Guimarães is like no other city in Portugal. Its past is so intimately intertwined with the History of Portugal that it is commonly and proudly referred to as the Cradle of the Nation. The Historic Centre of Guimarães has remained basically unchanged since the 15th century and was declared a World Heritage Site in 2001 by UNESCO, due to its Middle Age historical monuments. Guimarães was chosen by the Portuguese government to be the European Capital of Culture in 2012. PROCEEDINGS The book of abstracts and a CD-ROM will be distributed with registration's materials at the Conference. SCHEDULE An overview of the schedule is provided on the back cover of this program. Onsite registration: Onsite registration fees are: 600€-Authors and participants 300€-Students 250€-Accompanying Persons The registration fees includes: Conference attendance, the Book of Abstracts and the CD-ROM Proceedings, coffee-breaks, banquet (except for students) and welcome reception.

Title : Developing Hybrid Timber Construction For Sustainable Tall Buildings

is a structural engineer by profession and joined Arup in 1996, where he developed a strong interest in designing timber structures. In 2004 he started working with Jürgen Mayer H. on the Parasol Metropol in Seville, Spain, leading the timber team in the office. In 2009, he led the design team for the multidisciplinary research project LifeCycle Tower. At the same time, the Multi-story Timber Research Network global timber network within Arup began operations. Carsten has worked on various timber projects, always investigating the possibilities of the material and trying to push the boundaries for the use of timber.

A HYBRID APPROACH TO GREEN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION USING MASS TIMBER

Futuristic Trends in Construction Materials & Civil Engineering, 2024

India harbours the world's largest population and the most extensive construction sector globally, where the utilization of engineered wood products in building construction remains minimal. The advantages of incorporating timber into tall and commercial constructions are indisputable, contributing to the reduction of the carbon footprint, shortened construction times, and improved seismic and building physics performances. However, in India, engineered wood products have not been widely acknowledged as structural materials for tall and non-residential constructions. The implementation of hybrid timber buildings could offer a more rational approach to wood utilization, thereby fostering the development of more efficiently sustainable structures. In the years to come, this approach could lead to a higher proportion of engineered wood in buildings, bringing benefits to living conditions, the climate, and society at large.

Wooden building technology and proposal for an innovative solution

42nd IAHS World Congress the housing for the dignity of mankind, 2018

In the current global context, where building management is responsible for a large part of global energy consumption, environmental mitigation and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions are increasingly needed to counteract the risk of climate change. Environmental issues and the resulting regulations lead to research in the field of building applications towards the use of more sustainable and eco-friendly materials. Wood and wood-based products have characteristics that make them in line with the new environmental perspective. Wood has played a significant role in the building industry in all the historical epochs and, according to the geographic, climatic, economic and cultural context, its use has always been reinterpreted in different ways. Currently, the most widespread wood construction systems, such as the Cross Laminated Timber (XLAM) or the Platform Frame, are based on a high degree of factory prefabrication, enabling rapid assembling of the panels on site with a consequent reduction in construction times. To make wood a sustainable and eco-friendly constructive material, rational use of resources, proper forest management, use of non-toxic adhesives and solvents, and appropriate assembly methods are required. Furthermore, wood systems guarantee excellent seismic behavior due to their lightness and to the high ductility of well-designed metal connections. Into the stratigraphy of sustainable wood buildings, high energy efficiency performance can be achieved by pointing out to both low thermal conductivity and use of natural insulating instead of synthetic ones. In this paper, after analyzing the characteristics required to wooden system, a technical solution based on the Platform Frame is proposed, including high-density pressed straw elements in the internal gap. The use of natural insulants from appropriately processed agricultural waste can be a solution to improve both the energy performance of building envelope and the sustainability. In addition, the use of economic materials with low primary energy is one of the strategies in order to mitigate the environmental impacts of building sector.

Sustainable Construction—Technological Aspects of Ecological Wooden Buildings

Energies

Wooden construction constitutes a specific branch of the building industry that focuses on high-quality materials, a developed sense of aesthetics connected with comfort and functionality, and concern for ecology and durability. This type of construction has a positive effect on human quality of life. This article focuses on modular frame construction and technological aspects of wooden houses built according to Canadian or Scandinavian technologies. Taking weather conditions of Scandinavian countries into consideration, timber is a popular building material, which, when preserving certain parameters such as density of rings, may provide durability of a modular wooden building even up to 200–300 years. This article is a review and presents the possibility of producing frame buildings in Europe (Poland) in accordance with the applicable standards, including a heat transfer coefficient U = 2 [W/(m²·K]. In Poland, wooden frame buildings can be traced back to the 14th century. Wooden fr...