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Erol Karacabeyli

February 28, 2013

CLT’s role in North-American Construction

CLT Symposium Seattle

Wood Construction Early 1900’s Early 2000s Future Concepts Late 1900’s

Brick and Beam Heavy Timber

Light-Frame CLT

FPInnovations Survey on Brick & Beam Buildings

!  Up to 9 storeys, high ceiling (up to 12’ high), exposed heavy timber

!  Built from 1859 to 1933

!  Factories, warehouses and manufacturing

!  All across Canada…

•  Toronto - 125 buildings retail & office use (up to 220,000 sf floor space – i.e., 6 storeys @ 37,000 sf)

•  Vancouver – 47 buildings (min) retail, office, restaurant, hotel & apartment

•  Montreal – retail, residential & office use

1861: Bâtiments de 5 à 7 étages à Montréal This is the old sales office of Int’l Beams (which is a

recent FPI member now)

!  Treasured

! Durable

!  Flexible

!  Taller and larger than allowed by current building codes

FPInnovations Survey on Brick & Beam Buildings

Toronto Carpet Factory, largest brick & beam buildings in Canada. 6-storey with ceiling up to 22’. Built around 1900

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Wood Building Systems

Light Frame Post & Beam CLT Hybrid

CLT is A great addition to ‘Wood’s Toolbox’

Murray Grove Building, London, UK CSN-FONDACTION Building, Québec City

Paradigm shift in introducing innovative wood building systems

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Research and Development

Package Technical Solutions

for Adoption

Early Adoption

Code Implementation

U.S. CLT Handbook

Funding

Binational Softwood Lumber Council Forestry Innovation Investment of BC Structurlam Products Nordic Engineered Wood CLT America

U.S. CLT Handbook

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Working Group Brad Douglas (AWC) Erol Karacabeyli (FPInnovations) Dave Kretschmann (USDA FPL) Lisa Podesto (U.S. WoodWorks) BJ Yeh (APA)

Editors Erol Karacabeyli (FPInnovations) Brad Douglas (AWC)

Project Managers Sylvain Gagnon (FPInnovations) Loren Ross (AWC)

U.S. CLT Handbook

Authors and Reviewers Alpha Barry, FPInnovations Bob White, USDA FPL Brad Douglas, AWC

Blane Grann, FPInnovations Dave Kretschmann, USDA FPL Kenneth Bland, AWC

Brad Wang, FPInnovations Doug Rammer, USDA FPL Kuma Sumathipila, AWC

Christian Dagenais, FPInnovations Sam Glass, USDA FPL Loren Ross, AWC

Ciprian Pirvu, FPInnovations Ted Bilek, USDA FPL Phil Line, AWC

Conroy Lum, FPInnovations Phil Line, AWC

Erol Karacabeyli, FPInnovations BJ Yeh, APA Sam Francis, AWC

Jennifer O’Connor, FPInnovations Ed Keith, APA

Jieying Wang, FPInnovations Thomas Skaggs, APA Lisa Podesto, U.S. WoodWorks

Lin Hu, FPInnovations

Marjan Popovski, FPInnovations Andre Morf, Structurlam Jean-Luc Kouyoumji, FCBA

M Mohammad, FPInnovations Bruce Craig Joe McElvaney, City of Phoenix

Pablo Crespel, FPInnovations Bruce Stockton, Stockton Solutions Julie Frappier, Nordic

Paul Morris, FPInnovations David Adams Ron Hamburger, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Sylvain Gagnon, FPInnovations Graham Finch, RDH Scott Nyseth, Stonewood Design

James Churchill, Umass Amherst Steve Easly

Andrea Frangi, Zurich Steven Pryor, Simpson Strong Tie

Ario Cecotti, IVALSA Tom Williamsons, LLC

Dan Dolan, Wash. States Univ. Vince Camalleri, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Gerhard Schickhofer, Graz Univ.

Hans Blass, KIT, Germany

John Van de Lindt, Col. Stat. Univ.

Liv Haselbach, Wash. States Univ.

Shiling Pei, South Dakota Univ.

Ying-Hei Chui, UNB

55 North Amarican and International experts

Conceptually, how high can we go with wood?

20-Storey Austria UBC-RJC 20-Storey 16-Storey in Italy 20-Storey Norway 20 -

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As high as trees

Green-Karsh 30 Storey

TimberTower Germany

328 ft Redwood 379 ft

A Renaissance in wood construction

Q & A Q & A

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