Timber is the new concreteFriday 20 Nov 2015
Currently, there are four Australian councils promoting the use of engineered timbers – Latrobe Valley and Wellington Councils in Victoria, Kyogle Shire in NSW, and Wattle Range Council in South Australia. Rotorua council in New Zealand is also on board. Mr de Rijke last week made a presentation to MPs from major parties at Parliament House in Canberra. “We’re entering a new era of timber construction – super-modern buildings which are created faster, more cost effectively and way more sustainably using engineered timber,” Mr de Rijke said. “Timber is the new concrete. The vast potential and versatility of engineered timber holds the key to construction for the 21st century, just as the 18th century was about brick, the 19th steel, and the 20th was concrete.” In Europe, timber construction is seeing a revival, with building codes altered across the EU to permit the use of engineered timbers such as laminated veneer lumber, cross-laminated timber and glulam in multi-storey buildings. It was almost used for the London Olympic Games Athletes Village accommodation. which dRMM designed for Lendlease, Mr de Rijke said. As with all the practice’s projects, the client had to be convinced timber would work out no more expensive than steel and concrete, and Mr de Rijke not only proved that point, he also took Lendlease representatives to Austria to see CLT and LVL being manufactured, and to see some examples of the new era of timber buildings. While the concept was not used at the athletes village, the new awareness Lendlease gained about CLT was later put to good use in the design and construction of Forte and Library at the Dock, Mr de Rijke said. Source: The Fifth Estate | ||
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