24 May 2022

Lumber Tower, Kristiansand & Valle Wood Office Towers: Using Steel Connections To Enable Complex Geometries

Two key projects are presented, in which steel-timber hybrid solutions allow for optimization of structural performance and material efficiency. Using hybrid joints can deal efficiently...

23 May 2022

Design Considerations - Beam-Column Connections & Steel Buckling-Restrained Braced Frames

A mass timber-hybrid seismic braced frame system is being developed, using a diagonal steel buckling-restrained brace (BRB) with timber beams and column frame members. Six...

01 October 2020

Timber Rising | Rune Abrahamsen

Building the World's Tallest Mass Timber Building: Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway