4


NEWS


Supplement Editor Sarah Johnson


Managing Editor James Parker james@netmagmedia.eu


Advertisement Manager/ Joint Publisher Anthony Parker anthony@netmagmedia.eu


Production Assistants Mikey Pooley Shelley Collyer Rob Duncan Kim Musson


Editorial Assistants Roseanne Field Jack Wooler Teodora Lyubomirova


Editorial Coordinator Sue Benson


Contributors Stephen Cousins Jess Unwin


Sales Director Lesley Mayo


Sales Executives Suzanne Easter Ian Fletcher Kim Friend Steve Smith


Circulation/Reader Enquiry Service Jane Spice


Managing Director Simon Reed


netMAG media


publishing – ver tical search


netMAGmedia Ltd Cointronic House Station Road, Heathfield East Sussex, TN21 8DF


Advertising & Administration t 01435 863500 f 01435 863897 info@netmagmedia.eu www.architectsdatafile.co.uk


Press Releases editorial@netmagmedia.eu


FROM THE EDITOR


The results were equally fascinating, revealing that our house was built in 1520 and is likely to stand on the site of a medieval property from 100 years earlier.


I


We also learned that the oak frame came in kit form and was assembled on site. The historians were keen to point out markings to a beam showing the 16th century builders where to peg joists. According to the survey the property was “competently carpented using standard pre-fabricated timber-frame techniques.” My home, like other historic timber framed buildings, is a testament to how well they stand the test of time and even more so, the method in which they were constructed.


Five hundred years later, the use of timber as a construction material is clearly enjoying a resurgence as new engineered timber materials offer a modern, off-site, pre-fabricated solution while wood buildings become a viable option to steel or concrete. Hybrid buildings using wood in combination with other construction materials, are also allowing architects and engineers to design and build taller and more technically challenging composite buildings.


One excellent example is the 31 m tall Opalia in Paris which Jess Unwin reports upon in this supplement. Built mainly of wood using cross-laminated timber with Douglas Pine wood cladding, it has a steel ring beam round the edge of each floor plate, a concrete lift and below ground level concrete for rigidity.


Not only are engineered woods like CLT driving the construction of larger timber buildings worldwide, they are also providing advantages to smaller scale projects. Experts tell us that precision-engineered factory manufactured panels are light, and easy to transport and erect in tight spaces, as well as being fast and clean to install without reliance on other trades and clement weather conditions.


With the UK’s housing shortage in crisis, more factory-built homes using modular construction are emerging. Legal & General Capital (LGC) has announced its modular housing business having signed a long-term lease with Logicor on a 550,000 ft2


warehouse in North Yorkshire. Legal & General says it is the largest modular


homes construction factory in the world, with the homes producted being precision-engineered using CLT and automated technology.


Annual subscription costs just £48 for 12 issues, including post and packing. Phone 01435 863500 for details. Individual copies of the publication are available at £5 each inc p & p. All rights reserved


No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording or stored in any information retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of material published in Architects Datafile, the publisher can accept no responsibility for the claims or opinions made by contributors, manufacturers or advertisers. Editorial contributors to this journal may have made a payment towards the reproduction costs of material used to illustrate their products. The manufacturer of the paper used within our publication is a Chain-of- Custody certified supplier operating within environmental systems certified to both ISO 14001 and EMAS in order to ensure sustainable production. Printed in England


Contrary to widespread misconceptions that using wood destroys forests, sustainable forest management ensures plentiful, renewable timber. Wood also functions as a natural carbon sink, absorbing CO2


in the atmosphere and


storing it. From construction processes to the well being of occupants, using wood in architecture is part of our sustainable future.


Sarah Johnson Editor


TIMBER IN ARCHITECTURE adf 10.16


On the cover... Stanbrook Abbey, shortlisted in the education & public sector section of the 45th annual Wood Awards. Go to page 27.


am fortunate enough to live in a charming if not quirky timber framed cottage with beautiful exposed oak beams. Keen to learn more about its origins, we had an Archaeological Interpretative Survey undertaken. The experts spent hours examining the beams looking for clues; it was like piecing a jigsaw of history together.


WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK


ADF OCTOBER 2016


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44