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TDChallenge22 Structural Timber Making the Right Choices



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Timber Development UK – the organisation formed from the merger of TRADA and Timber Trade Federation – is partnering with New Model Institute of Technology and Engineering (NMITE), Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), and the Passivhaus Trust, to challenge built environment students, as well as recent graduates, to form multi-disciplinary teams to create a ‘net-zero community centre’ based on timber and timber-hybrid systems.

Join us to hear how we can reduce embodied carbon by making the right structural material choices and how to begin to design with solid timber joists or i-joists to Passivhaus standards so that we can deliver timber buildings that are planet and people and climate-friendly.

This evening’s event is the seventh in a series of webinars that will run alongside the Timber Development UK’s University Design Challenge to inform participants and the wider industry. They are recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel.

These webinars are open to students, graduates, professionals and the industry.
Structural Timber: Making the Right Choices
Tuesday 08 February 18.30 to 20.00
02:19 Setting the Scene: Kelly Harrison, Whitby Wood
07:19 Optioneering to Minimise Impact – Matt Caldwell, BuroHappold
31:45 Theory of timber beam design: solid section versus I-Joist – Abel Munoz, James Jones
49:40 Solid Section Design - James Norman, Bristol University
1:07:52 I-Joists in Use - Beth Williams, Build Collective
1:23:29 Questions/discussion - TDChallenge22

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Brief | Southside Hereford: University Design Challenge
This challenge is open to multidisciplinary teams of between 4-8 who are studying a Built Environment course at a UK university or who graduated in 2021. Register as an individual participant and either form your own team or we will help you to create and join a team. Details here.

“Hereford aspires to be one of the greenest and fairest cities in the country, with fantastic opportunities and quality of life for people of all ages. Deeply rooted in our unique rural heritage, we’re blossoming into a richly creative, digital, connected and highly-skilled place to live, work study, invest and visit.”

The stakeholders, your clients in this competition, will set out their requirements and needs for Southside Hereford which is to be a physical building to provide a vibrant, inspiring and inclusive sports, food and skills community focal point for the people of South Wye.

Participating teams must produce designs that sites the community centre within the local context and landscape, integrating the client's and community's interests.

The detailed designs must be ‘net zero’, creatively employing sustainable building materials and construction methods, and be energy and resource efficient, focusing on the health and well-being of people, the community, and our planet. Designed for longevity, adaptability, circularity and a warming climate and producing more energy than it requires, MMC and DfMA should be explored.

The main material focus and specification for the centre will be timber and timber hybrid systems. Your team's detailed design for the building will meet the Passivhaus Standard and exceed the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge targets.

To aid our participants each team will be provided with software from our supporters – AECB CO2 Calculator, desighPH and PHPP from iPHA and Trimble SketchUp

We would like to extend our thanks to our sponsors and supporters as of 17 December 2021.
Sponsors: Transforming Timber | PEFC UK | TDCA | Stora Enso | Passivhaus Homes | Accoya | Wood for Good | Rothoblaas

Supporters: AECB | iPHA |Trimble |Ufi VocTech Trust
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