Sprouts Farmers Market specialises in fresh and healthy produce. For its new California store, the design team moved away from steel to engineered wood. This helped lower its carbon footprint while achieving the span and load capacities of the brand’s signature open and airy layout.
Set in the remote Alaskan forest, this is the longest clear span glulam timber truss bridge in North America. The design was chosen for its natural beauty, cost effectiveness and durability. The 280-foot camelback truss bridge had to be high enough to allow icebergs to float underneath without a collison.
With glulam its focal point, the design of this US company building combined the structural and aesthetic capacities of engineered wood with its cost effectiveness. Prefabrication helped to reduce labour costs and construction time, with the overall bulding taking just seven months, and the glulam elements under 30 days.
Mass timber was chosen to reflect First United Bank’s sustainability initiative. The design for its new 8,500-square-foot bulding used cross laminated timber (CLT) panels for the roof, as well as glulam columns and beams. This made the build phase 50% to 60% faster than concrete or steel.
Constructing the largest cross laminated timber (CLT) building in the US took just 14 months, including 12 weeks for the timber erection. This saved 4 months construction time and 4% in costs. It included a CLT roof, floors and simplified façade, with glulam post and beam frame and columns.
This massive glulam and glass structure in Oakland, California, was created by engineers usingd innovative computer modelling backed by field tests. This was essential to achieve the high strength and ductility requirements for a building that was to be located less than eight miles from a major fault zone.
Canada’s scenic Kelowna region is the setting for this cross-laminated timber design, respectful of surroundings, yet modern in its angles and appearance. CLT is ideal with its slim profile, fire resistance ratings, ease of installation and beauty. Incorporates a glulam post and beam frame.
When cost held up this 120-apartment complex, the design was re-engineered with glulam and wood-framed shear walls. This involved I-joist compatible glulam beams and double-sided wood structural panel portal frames using force transfer around openings (FTAO), a method of shear wall analysis popular in California.
The design of this office development focuses on the use of engineered wood (from glulam beams to plywood shear walls) to deliver both energy efficiency and sustainability. The use of glulam as a frame for the structures taps into its carbon-sequestration capabilities as well as offering aesthetic appeal.
The need for affordability influenced the concrete forming product selection for this new apartment building. 19mm medium density overlay (MDO) plywood panels were used for the concrete formwork. Not only cost-effective but they could easily be to cut to size for use as fill-in formwork.
Innovative use of concrete formwork was part of a massive renovation project at the University of California. Built in 1923, the aging, historic California Memorial Stadium, the renovation brought it up to modern standards, which included a seismic retrofit.
A dramatic series of eleven, 55-foot-high reinforced concrete arches accentuate the façade of the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, built adjacent to the historic Union Station and designed to reflect its historic architecture.