Project focus: The TallWood House at Brock Commons, Vancouver

• Robert Jackson ^[1]
  1. [1] PEng, PE
• Localización: The Structural Engineer: journal of the Institution of Structural Engineer, ISSN 1466-5123, Vol. 96, Nº. 10, 2018, págs. 18-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The TallWood House at Brock Commons is an 18-storey, 400- bed student residence at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Reaching 53m, the building is among the tallest mass-timber hybrids in theworld. The building features an innovative ‘post and panel’ system, with cross-laminated timber panels, point-supported on glulam columns. The project highlights mass timber’s increasing viability as a cost-eff ective building material for high-rise construction.