23 May 2022

Three Projects, Three Levels Of Steel-Timber Hybrid Complexity

Case studies include Bullitt Center, Seattle, using steel BRB diagonal frames; Skylight, Portland, using GLT post-and-beam construction with steel tensioners and secondary frame; and 1...

23 May 2022

Two Public Buildings, California: Using Steel & Timber To Achieve Weight Savings

The lightweight benefits of steel timber-hybrids are explored in this presentation through two projects; Billie Jean King Library, Long Beach, reuses existing foundations on-site to...

23 May 2022

Using a Perforated Hollow Steel Beam to Build Up Timber Hybrid Fire-Rated Slim Floors

Life-cycle analyses have shown that glulam mass-timber beams can be less sustainable than a hybrid flat-slab system in high-rise applications. The presentation discusses an optimized...

23 May 2022

Using Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis To Determine Best Approaches For High Seismic Regions

In an experiment to determine the best design option for a high-rise in a high seismic region, the hybrid steel-timber option was preferred for the...

23 May 2022

Well House, Amsterdam: Steel Beams & CLT Floors

To maintain to a floor-to-ceiling height of 2.9 meters that was adaptable to future demands for heating/cooling or smart grids, steel beams and CLT floors...

01 April 2021

Tall Timber and the Future City

Antony Wood, CEO of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, delivers the keynote presentation, 1 April 2021, at the International Mass Timber Conference...

04 March 2021

CTBUH Florida Chapter: Timber on the Rise, from Paris to Miami

The CTBUH Florida Chapter reviews a case study on the Bruneseau Seine Tower in Paris and the current state of research in wood construction in...