Monterey Apartments
The South Australian Forest Product Association (SAFPA) is leading a mass timber building study tour to Brisbane in April as an opportunity for industry, business leaders and government decision makers, to witness first-hand how mass timber buildings can be integrated into future projects. Source: Timberbiz
To be held over two days on 18-19 April, SAFPA has secured site tours of three amazing examples of mass timber buildings across the office and residential asset classes all of which used engineered wood products, with CLT as the main building material to construct these modern and environmentally friendly buildings.
The tour will particularly focus on 25 King Street and the Monterey Kangaroo Point Apartment.
25 King is the tallest engineered timber building in Australia. It is just one metre shy of the world’s tallest timber building, Brock Commons in Vancouver, designed by Acton Ostry Architects, which was completed in 2016.
25 King
Engineered timber was used throughout 25 King, with a six metre by eight metre grid of exposed glue-laminated timber (glulam) columns with cross-laminated timber (CLT) cladding, as well as CLT flooring.
The building features open office spaces across 10 floors, with exposed services. The offices make up the largest gross floor area for an engineered timber building in the world.
The Monterey Kangaroo Point Apartments building in Brisbane is Australia’s tallest engineered timber residential tower. The nine-story building features cross-laminated timber (CLT), which is solid-sawn timber bonded together in transverse and longitudinal layers with structural adhesives to produce thick panels. Panels provide similar strength and stiffness to concrete and steel, while also improving fire performance.
Delegates on the tour will meet with developers, architects, engineers and government decision makers to understand how this building material can be used in future projects whilst decarbonising our built environment.
Engineered timber products are increasingly being used in Australia and internationally, as this structurally sound material brings a combination of benefits and factors to the construction industry, particularly cost-effectiveness, liveability, efficiency of construction, and more importantly, it’s a product that offers environmental benefits as it’s a sustainable, carbon neutral building material.
With thanks to our tour partners, NeXTimber and Aurecon, SAFPA looks forward to showcasing how Engineered Wood Products like CLT will provide mass timber building solutions for our construction industry.
For more about this tour, contact SAFPA’s CEO, Nathan Paine; [email protected] or call 0448 445 177.
