Fri, Apr 09
|Tall Timber Zoom Meeting
April CSI Flint Hills CEU Tall Timber
Presented By: Todd Gabbard Todd teaches design studio and environmental architecture at Kansas State. His research interests include sustainable building systems, performative housing, energy efficiency, and rural architecture and development.


Time & Location
Apr 09, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Tall Timber Zoom Meeting
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About the event
MASS TIMBER.
Timber is hardly a new material. Recent innovations have allowed for new approaches to buildingÂ
with timber, and over the past decade we have seen timber buildings grow taller and taller. ItÂ
seems that we are in a timber renaissance of sorts, with a number of new approaches to mid-rise andÂ
potentially high-rise buildings.
The environmental benefit of timber-structured buildings is significant. Timber requires much lessÂ
energy to harvest, transport, and process, and so releases less carbon, than either steel orÂ
concrete. In addition, harvested timber stores carbon for the lifetime of the building, and hasÂ
some insulative value. Timber is actually highly resilient, as well. Timber buildings can stand forÂ
centuries; pound for pound it ranks with both steel and concrete in structural strength. TimberÂ
performs well in seismic and other eccentric loading, and outperforms concrete in some ways inÂ
fires.
Performance aside, mass timber is a marvelous material, and we are at the forefront of itsÂ
inception as a standard large building system. Wood is a warm material aesthetically. It is veryÂ
versatile, able to replace steel, composite, precast, or sitecast concrete elements (tectonic orÂ
panels). Considering heavy timber’s fire protection properties, it is possible to leave timberÂ
exposed in many types of spaces and buildings.
This session will be an overview of where we are now in terms of tall timber construction. It willÂ
closely examine some recent tall timber exemplars, discuss the methods architects, contractors,Â
subs, and manufacturers use, and explore opportunities for mass and tall timber here in the centerÂ
of the country.
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