Measuring Mass Timber - Deriving A Mass Timber Whole Life Carbon & Quality Of Life Method By Evaluating Five Mass Timber UK Buildings
Report
Scott, K., & Charleson, F. (2025)
Measuring Mass Timber - Deriving A Mass Timber Whole Life Carbon & Quality Of Life Method By Evaluating Five Mass Timber UK Buildings. Built by Nature
This report is the primary outcome of the Measuring Mass Timber research project. The study was led by dRMM, with collaborating partners Edinburgh Napier University and the Qu...
Shear and Torsion
Report
Plowas, W. (2024)
Shear and Torsion. Timber Development UK
Eurocode 5 provides verifications for design for timber beams subjected to shear and to torsion.
It gives verifications for design for shear, for stress components (both para...
Lateral Torsional Buckling
Report
Plowas, W. (2024)
Lateral Torsional Buckling. Timber Development UK
Lateral torsional instability occurs when a beam’s compression face is not fully restrained against lateral movement and its relative slenderness is high. The beam may fail by...
Fire Performance of Timber and Timber Products
Report
Plowas, W. (2024)
Fire Performance of Timber and Timber Products. Timber Development UK
Designing with Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)
Report
Plowas, W. (2024)
Designing with Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). Timber Development UK
The development of CLT brought new possibilities for timber in construction. Instead of framing smaller timber sections to form load-bearing structural systems, timber product...
Cross Laminated Timber
Report
Plowas, W. (2024)
Cross Laminated Timber. Timber Development UK
Cross Laminated Timber, also known as CLT or X-lam, is an engineered timber product with a minimum of three cross-bonded layers. At least one layer is orthogonally oriented to...
Local resources inform design mid-point results from the Building from England's Woodlands project
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tamagnone, G., Charleson, F., Cramer, M., Seminara, P., Plowas, W., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Hairstans, R. (2024, August)
Local resources inform design mid-point results from the Building from England's Woodlands project. Presented at International SEEDS Conference 2024, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Considering the energy consumption and carbon equivalent emission of the construction industry, a massive shift towards more sustainable and less carbon intensive materials an...
Loft Conversions with Timber
Report
Plowas, W. (2023)
Loft Conversions with Timber. Timber Development UK
Converting a loft into an active living space needs careful consideration due to modification of structural timbers and increased loads. But utilising timber improves performa...
Transforming Timber
Digital Artefact
Hairstans, R., Plowas, W., Livingstone, A., Connell-Skinner, K., Cramer, M., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Seminara, P. Transforming Timber. [Website content])
Hairstans, R., Plowas, W., Livingstone, A., Connell-Skinner, K., Cramer, M., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Seminara, P. Transforming Timber. [Website content]
The construction materials used since the industrial revolution now dominate the sector. This is one of the leading causes of our current climate crisis. We need alternative s...
Material Compatibility and Optimisation for Home-Grown Mass Timber Systems
Report
Ridley-Ellis, D., Plowas, W., & Cramer, M. (2022)
Material Compatibility and Optimisation for Home-Grown Mass Timber Systems. Innovate UK
A report produced for work package 3.2 of the Innovate UK funded "Transforming Timber" project