LBC 3.1 Materials Research and Engineered Timber

For Gisborne Airport we researched each of the 275 materials specified. Thirty-five of these were structural, 76 of these were for the enclosure, 28 of these were for the interior, 44 of these were finishes, 88 of these were services and 4 of these were landscape. We researched in the region of 400 materials to achieve the 275 specified.

To find the required information for Gisborne Airport we built upon materials research that we had conducted for our Ngai Tūhoe projects. We continued to apply the instructions from the latest Living Building Challenge Materials Petal Handbook and encouraged suppliers to declare their products. We apply our materials knowledge to our non-LBC projects also, the image here is of LVL at Te Ara a Tāwhaki.

This week we would like to draw your attention to three mass timber engineered wood products:

- Timberlab Glulam

- Nelson Pine LVL

- Techlam Glulam

Although one of the three products is not more than 99

Tennent Brown

Architect

Tennent Brown is concerned with people, how our buildings and environments will affect their experience. We design to uplift the quality of life, of work, play and wellbeing of those the buildings serve.Architecture is built around people, and every design is an individual's or organisation’s story: their hopes and aspirations for a building that is their own.People entrust us with realising some expression of themselves, to translate that into built form. We take that seriously. Ours is an architecture of listening and understanding: a humanist architecture.

Architect - Wellington City

LBC 3.1 Materials Research and Engineered Timber

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