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14 December 2020
The MMTD provides expertise in theories, cases, techniques, tools and design projections of mass timber construction and the interrelated fields of architecture, structural design, assembly systems, […]
13 December 2020
A very special client asked us to design a wonderful and full of technology suspended ceiling using LVL. Our computational design department is doing great!!!
9 December 2020
A few days there was a discussion among engineers in the office: what’s the best way to decorate the Christmas tree? Every tree is different as […]
27 November 2020
Timber Construction 2020: We have developed building systems and engineered all necessary functions and safety dimensions. We know how it's done. Safely. What is holding us back?
26 November 2020
In the past 13 years we engineered many timber buildings: some of them are very small, some of them are quite big. We collected some of […]
24 November 2020
Tensegrity, tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and […]
24 November 2020
A few days ago we had a meeting with Arch. Renzo Piano and the rest of the team: it went well and now it is time to move on to the next step!
20 November 2020
Covid changed the way we work and the way we meet (e-meet) people. We’re all getting more and more familiar with technology, even the more conservative ones.
13 November 2020
New European project improving the sustainability of European construction. Build-in-Wood strives to make wood a natural choice for the construction of multi-storey buildings.
10 November 2020
A few months ago, I was in Stockholm for some business meetings and I took the chance to visit the Vasa Museum.
21 October 2020
“I remember when in 1995 I was going around the South Tirolean Alps selling threaded rods, nuts, blades for band saws, and nail gun hardware for […]
4 October 2020
Save the date!
Our director, Franco Piva, contributed to two workshops that took place in Toronto in December 2018 and October 2019 to introduce – and help develop – Sidewalk Labs’ concept for a radical new urban development in the city: a whole new district formed from engineered (mass) timber and entitled ‘Waterfront Toronto’.
21 May 2020
New timber towers in Trondheim illustrate the growing international demand for modular building design and construction
12 May 2020
Way before the emergence of fake news, the proverbial phrase “no news is good news” is believed to have originated with King James I of England […]
20 April 2020
Any discussion of sound control in the context of mass timber has tended to concentrate on noise issues – how well or otherwise these products and […]
