OnlineFirst - "An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city" by Bregje van Veelen and Sarah Knuth:

#masstimber #urbanbioeconomy #sociotechnicalimaginaries #plyscraper

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231179815

RT @TimberDevUK
Well done to @JoeGiddings4 and the team at @builtbynature for packing out today's series of ten minute talks focusing on research and actions towards #sustainable timber construction from UK forests. Great to see the enthusiasm in the room for #timber and #masstimber systems.

RT @TimberDevUK
Well done to @JoeGiddings4 and the team at @builtbynature for packing out today's series of ten minute talks focusing on research and actions towards #sustainable timber construction from UK forests. Great to see the enthusiasm in the room for #timber and #masstimber systems.

A non-art post, so apologies to the local feed.

But new paper from us at RISE on external fire plumes from compartments with exposed mass timber. Open access and includes a load of the data as supplementary materials for you to download and poke around with yourselves!

https://lnkd.in/exHkw86f

#FireSafety #research #FireScience #science #MassTimber

I tend to think that processes and relations are more important in determining the quality of our lives than materials, but I must say that I find #masstimber (#CLT or #glulam primarily) superimpressive. In part, this is because of the processes of assembly it permits and the healthier – and potentially #postgrowth –relations it allows us to enter into as a building material, but some of my enthusiasm is just sheer aesthetic glee.

So if/when twitter goes down - you can still find my thoughts on buildings, #passivhaus, urban planning, #massTimber, #cities, #mobility and code reform here...

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