The Wood Innovation and Design Centre in BC, designed by Michael Green Architects, is one of the buildings featured in a new edition of the book Tall Wood Buildings. Photo by Ema Peter
Canadian CLT Handbook, 2019 Edition
Edited by Erol Karacebeyli and Sylvain Gagnon. (FPInnovations, 2019)
Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance
By Michael Green and Jim Taggart (Birkhauser, 2020)
The advantages to building with mass timber are clear: compared to steel or concrete, wood is a renewable resource with the potential to sequester carbon. This makes it a construction material of increasing import in the era of anthropogenic climate crisis.
Two recent Canadian publications help equip architects and engineers in using mass timber. The Canadian CLT Handbook, published by forest products research organization FPInnovations, is a two-volume reference manual compiling technical information on cross-laminated timber. (A parallel US edition is also available.) Tall Wood Buildings, by Vancouver-based architect Michael Green and educator Jim Taggart, focuses on the potential for mass timber?s use in mid-rise and high-rise buildings in urban centres. ?Tall Wood buildings represent the most practical, effective and environmentally responsible solution to the global housing shortage,? write Green and Taggart.
The CLT Handbook is edited by engineers Erol Karacebeyli and Sylvain Gagnon, and clocks in at 812 pages. Its peer-reviewed content delves deep into the construction and ...