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Why More Schools Should Be Built With Wood

For the better part of a decade, B.C.’s schools have featured more innovative, eco-friendly, and

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Tutoring with Timber: Using Wood in Schools

How does school design influence the process of teaching and learning? Understanding current educational design

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Getting technical and going taller with timber

Designers and developers can take low-carbon timber buildings to new heights with this updated essential

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New demonstration projects showcase BC’s growing expertise in advanced mass timber construction

The second intake of the Province’s Mass Timber Demonstration Program continues to expand BC’s expertise

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Using BIM to deliver low-carbon wood buildings

In the original design for the Sydney Opera House, Jørn Utzon envisioned the shells supported

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The biophilic response to wood: Can it promote the well-being of building occupants?

Although the term may seem recent, the concept of biophilia has been used for decades

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Coming full circle: wood and the circular economy

How BC’s timber construction sector and better building design is supporting a shift toward a

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Is mass timber a good choice for seismic zones?

For some, it may be terrifying to think that we inhabit a sphere orbiting the

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Architecting resilience

How incorporating timber into buildings supports BC communities in the face of natural disasters Resilient

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There is life after demolition: mass timber, circularity and designing for deconstruction

The first Shikinen Sengu was held in the year 690, in the city of Ise, Mie

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Why should architects understand and care about carbon and LCA?

Yes, we know. We have been talking a lot about carbon. Not only here, but

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Mass timber’s mass appeal

A rising number of municipalities, in all corners of the province, are turning to innovative

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