Steel: Timber's Best Friend
With ALL of Glulam's positive traits - aesthetics, carbon capture, strength-to-weight ratio - there are still some things it doesn't do very well. Because Glue laminated timber -such as GL24 spruce- ...
Exploring "Outsulation"
In developing a mass timber building kit, we cannot get very far before we must assess the thermal performance of a building. Mass timber has some benefits in this area: 1) Airtight- Because the ele...
Small Footprints
If you are designing a cabin as a short term rental, investing in expanding a hotel, or building your dream tiny house, its very important to take extra steps to make sure you are not going TOO SMALL....
Spruce Tips
The Mighty Norway Spruce - Picea abies- is synonymous with mass timber. In North America we see it as a fast growing ornamental tree for the yard, but it is the backbone of the European timber indus...
Optimize for what?
Decide how to optimize early. In creating a building kit, we can optimize for speed of assembly. When the focus is on speed, we reduce the overall number of elements and the variation between elemen...