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Timber Buildings Taking Shape as Construction Sector Expands

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Lendlease is to construct a new timber office tower at Barangaroo South as demand for the environmentally-friendly properties gains traction. The building will be known as Daramu House, which means “tree house” in the aboriginal Sydney...

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PCL Wins Green Building Award for Humber River Hospital

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When Humber River Hospital (HRH) opened its doors near Keele and the 401 in 2015, the massive facility became North America’s first fully digital hospital. Designed by HDR Architects and built by PCL, the 14-storey, 1.8 million square foot...

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Prefab Housing Pioneer Katerra buys Michael Green Architecture

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Silicon Valley prefabricated home-building company Katerra has acquired Michael Green Architecture (MGA), the Vancouver-based firm that has emerged as one of the leading exponents of timber-based design. MGA said the deal signalled a “profound...

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Is Modular Construction the Future of Multifamily Housing? Advantages Include Time Savings and Greater Flexibility

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If you didn't know anything about its history, the building at 193 Henry Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side may seem like your average new luxury condo on the block. However, there is something quite unique about how it was built that just might...

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33 Modular Timber Apartments Placed on Roof of French Residential Block

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A renovation project in the town of Poissy, on the north-western outskirts of Paris, has succeeded in adding 33 new units to an existing building by fitting prefabricated modules to their roofs. The project, for client Vilogia, was designed by...

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First look inside Australia’s tallest timber tower

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Lendlease has released images of the inside of its engineered timber office building under construction at 25 King Street Brisbane, which is set to become Australia’s tallest engineered timber building when complete.

The 45-metre,...

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Prefab industry seeks scheme to assure banks, homeowners

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Prefabricated building industry leaders have visited the Beehive to urge ministers to use their procurement muscle to set high quality benchmarks for the fledgling industry. Such standards would mean all "offsite" home...

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The Rise of the Wooden Skyscrapper

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Forget steel and concrete — wood is the latest go-to material for building skyscrapers. The renewable resource has high potential. "The world's tallest wooden house!" reads a huge poster on the side of a building under construction in...

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Toronto gets a tall wood tower - and, maybe, an architectural masterpiece

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Dubbed 'The Arbour,' the building represents a move by George Brown College to make a mark with a building of international significance.

The proposal by Shigeru Ban with the Toronto firm Brook McIlroy would be a showpiece of a...

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The world needs to build more than two billion new homes over the next 80 years

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By the end of this century, the world's population will have increased by half - that's another 3.6 billion people. According to the UN, the global population is set to reach over 11.2 billion by the...

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