24 May 2022

Increasing Urban Density with Steel & Timber: XRAD and SPIDER Systems

Two pioneering new concepts for the future of tall buildings and vertical extensions: The SPIDER connector allows a Texas project to remove supporting beams on...

24 May 2022

M5, Vancouver and Terraine, San Jose: Lessons Learned From Conception To Construction

Two residential structures, 18 and 20 stories respectively, in the seismically-active North American West Coast use steel columns in partitions for the gravity system and...

24 May 2022

The AISC Design Guide To Hybrid Steel Frames With Wood Floors

Arup has collaborated with the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) to develop an upcoming Design Guide to support the use of hybrid steel frames...

23 May 2022

Heartwood Workforce Housing : Glulam / CLT and Steel BRB Frames

Heartwood is a 126-unit workforce housing project, one of the first Type IV-C 8-story mass timber/steel hybrid and is currently under construction in Seattle, WA....

23 May 2022

843 North Spring Street, LA : CLT, Wide-Flange Steel, & Special Concentric Braced Frames

This five-story, 11,334 square-meter office and retail project employs a robust hybrid steel and timber structural system that combines 9.1-by-3-meter, five-ply CLT floor panels with...

23 May 2022

Bringing Sustainable Steel To Your Next Hybrid Structure

This presentation provides guidance on selecting production techniques, recycled content levels, strengths and framing types, and describes a modular steel form system that works well...

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...

23 May 2022

Lessons Learned from USA Steel Timber Projects

An overview of a dozen steel-timber hybrid projects completed in the USA, presenting some of the driving factors that led to adopting the configuration, including...

23 May 2022

McEvoy & Dupont Apartments, San Jose, California - Steel BRB Lateral System

This presentation introduces the constructability benefits and challenges of steel BRB lateral systems (distributed/exterior/core) for use in mass timber buildings. It reviews the design, procurement,...

23 May 2022

Steel-Timber Hybrid Floor Vibrations In Life Science Laboratory Buildings

Floor vibration performance of steel-timber hybrid floors is examined with particular focus on the requirements for laboratory equipment and other sensitive lab/office environments. The embodied...