Mass Timber Construction: A Woody Renaissance

About this episode

The episode explores the impact of mass timber construction on the built environment through a conversation with Jordan Robinson from X-Lam.

Send us Fan Mail Step into the revolutionary world of mass timber construction with our enlightening conversation featuring Jordan Robinson, Head of Business Development at X-Lam. What begins as a reunion of old architecture school friends quickly transforms into a masterclass on how engineered timber is reshaping our built environment. Remember when timber was just for stick framing houses? Those days are rapidly disappearing as Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) and other mass timber products de...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam Brown, Ben Sutherland, Gerard Dombroski

Guest: Jordan Robinson

Topics covered

• mass timber construction
• Cross-Laminated Timber
• engineered timber
• architecture
• built environment

Keywords

• mass timber
• construction
• architecture
• Cross-Laminated Timber
• engineered timber

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: X-Lam

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