Structural Timber News
The latest in structural timber building design and technologies
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Timber modules could be swapped out from long-lasting wooden high-rises
(Image Credit: IAT – TU Graz) The modules can be installed on top of or next to each other, and can be changed to offer a flexible floor plan The high-rise buildings of the future could be built out of…
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Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions and Hilti GB Collaborate to Advance Timber Construction
Saint-Gobain Off-Site Solutions and Hilti Great Britain have formed a strategic partnership to raise standards in timber construction. The collaboration focuses on delivering measurable improvements in health and safety, productivity, sustainability and digitalisation across Saint-Gobain’s UK offsite operations. By combining…
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Is Paris’s Wood Up a template for future timber housing projects?
As well as providing Parisians with housing, LAN Architecture’s 16-storey tower has also served as an experimental research project for the development of timber as a building material, with many of its elements requiring laboratory testing from scratch Is timber…
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UK construction in 2025: The key challenges and opportunities ahead
As we look ahead to 2025, the UK construction industry faces several challenges and opportunities shaped by ambitious government targets, evolving regulations and technological advancements. Roly Ward, head of business development at Medite Smartply, takes a look at what some…
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Muir Timber Systems delivers kits for 44-home Leslie site
MUIR Timber Systems has delivered timber kits and roof trusses for 44 new affordable homes in Leslie, a village near Glenrothes in Fife. The properties comprise a mix of detached and semi-detached two, three and four-bedroom houses and amenity bungalows.…
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World’s First Plug-and-Play System Can Build Timber Skyscrapers
The fully patented MOHOHO system slides prefabricated wooden modules into a mass timber skeleton. Timber engineers are working to develop the world’s first fully modular timber skyscrapers, creating giant ‘skeleton’ building systems that use cross-laminated timber floors and glulam beams…
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Construction begins on HQ for global manufacturer
Work has started on the development of a purpose-built facility for a global manufacturer at Worcester Six Business Park. Comprising 278,048 sq ft, the building will become MiTek’s EMEA headquarters, serving its businesses in the UK, France, Germany, Poland, Latvia,…
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BSW Unveils Investment and Expansion Plans for Melton Businesses
BSW Group has announced that it will be investing significantly in its BSW Timber Solutions and Bayram Timber sites in Melton, near Hull, where it will be expanding production operations and enhancing IT infrastructure. Following recent investments in a new…
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The Little Big House: an accessible MMC home
Using a prefabricated timber cassette system, Knox Bhavan architects have created an energy-efficient home that addresses the specific physical needs of a client who is paralysed from the shoulders down. The low-lying T-shaped arrangement of the house was carefully developed…
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Scottish Water trials RSE’s award-winning Timber Modular Build kiosks
Scottish Water has partnered with Ross-Shire Engineering (RSE) to trial an award-winning low carbon approach to housing equipment on site. The pilot has seen traditional kiosks be replaced with modular wooden structures created by RSE, with the first Timber Modular…
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