In the realm of timber engineering, precision reigns supreme. Unlike some industries where room for error is tolerated, timber engineers like us understand that the phrase […]
A couple of weeks ago we posted an impressive picture showing our director, Franco Piva, hugging a red spruce column while asking all our followers to guess how many […]
Stairs are not easy to be designed, we know that, but many different Mass Timber projects challenged us with this kind of design and we’re going to show […]
When Pareto demonstrated his principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, at the University of Lausanne in 1897, he surely could not have thought that almost […]
Last week we had a super interesting meeting with Finch Buildings, a highly passionate and modern Nord European company that works in the modular building field. […]
(and make timber the material to go for) In the construction industry, there have always been numerous aspects to take into consideration from the very early […]
Details, timber and DfMA: three strictly related words This article can be seen as the second part of the article about Digital Model we wrote. How […]
We are honored to host Arnie Didier, CEO and Founder of Forest Business Network with an interview about the upcoming International Mass Timber Conference in Portland […]
Economists refer to these effects as negative ‘externalities’ that occur because we continue to operate in an economic system that focuses on financial capital and built/manufactured […]
From 2025 onwards, in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area (MRA) all the new construction will include at least 20% timber, which means an annual reduction of approximately 220,000 tons […]
One of the very first engineers working on form-finding is the Italian Pierluigi Nervi. He worked on this (without any FEM software!) because of the shortage […]
Autor: PhD Cesare Benzi, Phd Andrea Kalajzic (CRIEL – Research Center on the Internationalization of Local Economies, University of Insubria, Economics Department) During the last 25 […]