That depends on your location and availability of supply. One of the big advantages of mass timber is that the material is much lighter than concrete and steel, so your foundations can be designed for a lower load, which makes it cheaper. The workforce needed for the construction is also smaller, and you need less trucks to bring the materials to the construction site. The lighter materials also mean you can use smaller cranes. The material itself is more expensive, especially in places like the US, but the other offsets can make the project still cheaper depending on many factors.
Not really. What matters is the labor. Paying carpenters to build up a full house frame will cost a LOT, plus you need to buy and get several products delivered, which also have a big CO2 footprint. Getting walls prefabricated, mostly by CNT cuts, then delivered and basically instantly assembled together is far more economical and have a far lower CO2 footprint.
imagine someone proposing aluminum connections for aluminum or steel or concrete structures..... everyone would be like, uh, no, metal fatigue is too risky
Fantastic video for me as a structural engineer looking to start designing Clt.
Greeting from Perú, great video
Wat a materials, I need to start up this CLT industry
Thanks. Nice webinar. Curious, does anyone count impact of aluminium connections on embodied carbon of the CLT buildings?
Thanks. Can you post a video step by step calculations of CLT floor thickness and glulam post dimensions not glulam beams ? Please
Hi, is this construction process suitable for Australia as well?
Isn't CLT construction more expensive than regular wood construction?
That depends on your location and availability of supply. One of the big advantages of mass timber is that the material is much lighter than concrete and steel, so your foundations can be designed for a lower load, which makes it cheaper. The workforce needed for the construction is also smaller, and you need less trucks to bring the materials to the construction site. The lighter materials also mean you can use smaller cranes. The material itself is more expensive, especially in places like the US, but the other offsets can make the project still cheaper depending on many factors.
Not really. What matters is the labor. Paying carpenters to build up a full house frame will cost a LOT, plus you need to buy and get several products delivered, which also have a big CO2 footprint.
Getting walls prefabricated, mostly by CNT cuts, then delivered and basically instantly assembled together is far more economical and have a far lower CO2 footprint.
@@Aphorism89on point
imagine someone proposing aluminum connections for aluminum or steel or concrete structures..... everyone would be like, uh, no, metal fatigue is too risky