Clt : A Sustainable Building Material Through An Exploration Of Not Only Its Innate Qualities

The buildings designed by early builders and constructed by the craftsmen of the time—though they often incorporated foreign styles—took on local features and became a stylistic synthesis of particular concepts of space, structure, form, and function. Vernacular building is integrated within the nature. If we look upon the vernacular structure it leads towards sustainability and in modern decade sustainable architecture is too much required. Vernacular architecture presents basic and simple solutions for the sustainable issues because it has significant environmentally features that respond to sustainability such as low energy techniques to provide for human comfort, approaches that are integral to the form, orientation, and materials that are obtained from local resources. Thus, vernacular buildings and correspondingly settlements can be accepted as a knowledge source for sustainable building design ideas. Therefore, lessons learned from vernacular architecture can help in designing of environmentally friendly built environments. Studies from vernacular architecture may give birth to new ideas and designs for modern era which will be environmental friendly as well as economical. All buildings must be designed with specific cultures in

By planning to open 200 more stores in the near future, IKEA Group will strain their current sustainability practices and wood sourcing standards. According to IKEA Group’s Chief Sustainability Officer, “Worldwide economic activity, if left unchecked, is already on track to consuming 150% of planet earth’s resources” (Rangan, 2017, pg.1) The amount of lumber IKEA will need to procure is rising, but the amount available that fits their standards isn’t rising at the same rate. IKEA’s push to double sales and open the 200 stores will need to be met by a push to create or procure lumber that fit their standard. The options before IKEA are the following: to drive higher procurement targets and standards, to use more recycled wood, to own more forests,

Lightweight wood construction is most often seen in the residential setting. The main types of materials used in light weight wood construction are pre-manufactured I-beams and I-joist, truss systems, plywood, and OSB boards. I-beams and joist are manufactured by placing a plywood or

The best solution can be in those regions of the developed world where the housing deficit in not a major problem. United States of America is among the few countries with country wide standard residential construction with fulfilled market. Wood is the prime structural component of these constructions and is used in over 90% of houses (Piepkorn, 2014). This high use of wood is far more common than in any regions of the world except Canada. Increased use of prefabrication within a controlled environment of a factory have further reduced the costs and improved the process efficiency in these countries. Though the learnings may not be used directly, wood construction using techniques adapted to certain climatic conditions have proven to be successful. Thus this wood frame construction system has been gaining acceptance worldwide owing to its affordability, waste reduction, aesthetics, low negative environmental impact, flexibility in design and ease of construction (Roche, O'Connor, & Tetu,

The services and products offered by IKEA provide value to its customers in various ways. For one, the products and services are very affordable. The products and services are not priced highly and therefore, the average customer can enjoy them. At the same time, the products are of high quality. From IKEA’s slogan “low prices but not at any price”, it is clear that the company prices its products lowly but that does not mean that the quality is compromised. IKEA satisfying its customer’s needs through providing them value for their money as they provide quality products that will last for a long time, and at affordable costs. The fact that the company has set the minimum acceptable standards for its wood, implies that it is also keen on quality and on the environmental impact of its action of making furniture ( Edvardsson, Enquist & Hay, 2006).

In order to create a column-free space, designers and engineers opted to use free spanning composite glue-laminated (glulam) wood-steel arches supported by inclined concrete buttresses (Chodikoff, 2009). For the arches, the glulam slabs were made from engineered timbers consisting of wood laminations bonded together with strong, waterproof adhesives, resulting in a structural component as strong as steel. To increase the lateral stiffness, and assist in carrying the bending stresses from unbalanced snow loading, each arch has steel components anchoring the glulam slabs – resulting in a composite glulam wood-steel arch (Gregory, 2010). The use of glulam for the arches allowed for the roof’s large 100-metre span and curved element to be produced (Dietsch, 2011).

If you are in the process of designing your new home, the type of materials that will be used is a critical decision to make. There are many different varieties of building materials that you can use for your home, and while wood is one of the more common, there are many people that believe some commonly spread myths about this option. By refuting the following myths about using wood as a building material for your home, you will have more of the information required for you to make sound choices for your home’s needs.

Green buildings could become one of the main factors to preserve our rapidly decaying environment. There is no easy way to define a green building, but a green building is essentially a structure that amplifies the positives and mitigates the negatives throughout the entire life cycle of the building (Kriss, 2014). There are many definitions for a green building, but all of them include the planning, designing, constructing, and operating of the building while taking into huge considerations of the energy use, water use, indoor air environment, materials used and the effect it has on the site the green building is being built on. The first green buildings dates back to as far as the 1970’s, when solar panels went from experiments to reality. Green buildings were not as popular as they are today due to their extremely high pricing. With technology rapidly growing, solar panels are becoming cheaper and cheaper, making the transition to creating green buildings more affordable. This is the primary reason for the increased growth of green buildings today. A modern company that is paving the way to the growth of green buildings named LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, focuses primarily on new and effective ideas for environmentally friendly buildings projects. With more than 60,000 commercial projects worldwide and 1.7 million square feet being certified every day, LEED is one of the leading groups for promoting green buildings. LEED has popularized the entire

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The new exhibit at the HCC Central Art Gallery discusses the possibilities of engineered wood after it no longer serves its original purpose.

Engineered hardwood shares many of these same benefits although the product has a much shorter lifespan even when you factor in the ability to refinish the flooring. However, the amount of raw material needed to produce a thin veneer skin is far less than what is required to make a solid wood plank. Since it is mostly made from organic material, engineered hardwood can be salvaged and recycled to expand its

Being the lone carrier of this type of wood HLC can experience first mover advantage. Therefore, it has a chance to dictate margins, making the resource valuable to them. Furthermore, their customized lumber differentiated its products. Companies willing to spend can acquire these resources but the challenge rests in the ability for rivals to imitate HLC. Having established itself as profitable brand and trusted brand (environmental friendly) it developed a reputation advantage over its competitors. This is evident through statement “Hayward planned to use the company’s experiential knowledge and leadership position to become the trusted one-stop shop for green builders”. The operational choices HCL uses to exploit its FSC certified lumber can become costly to imitate. Having established a method in creating convenience in home builder acquiring their resources may cost extra for competitors to

HLC initially looked into FSC-certified wood when custom home-builders began to generate a demand for the material. This consumer base is generally providing a service for luxury home buyers who tend to be less price-sensitive and willing to pay the higher rates in order to claim environmental friendliness. The other portion of their customer base, low-cost builders, did not show an interest in such expensive products despite the ecological appeal. In order to meet the demands of the luxury home buyers HLC dedicated a portion of their inventory holding to FSC-certified lumber,

Given the issue of deforestation and the link to global warming, IKEA would need to take into consideration finding a low-cost material as a replacement for wood.

Making the best use of the materials in the building is sometimes difficult to judge and will depend to some extent on the taste of the viewer. One approach to considering the way that the materials have been used is to determine the extent to which the wood and stone and brick and steel and glass and blocks have been allowed to