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DfMA Approach to Mass Timber Design: Engineering a Greener Future

Civil + Structural Engineer

By: Ricardo Brites , Director of Engineering & VDC at Mercer Mass Timber Imagine your projects being more precise, efficient, and sustainable? Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) is leading the way in modern building design, reshaping how we build, especially when it comes to mass timber.

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Improving Sustainability in the Construction Industry: A Complete Guide for 2025

UK Construction Blog

The post Improving Sustainability in the Construction Industry: A Complete Guide for 2025 appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Every brick laid, every beam installed, and every foundation poured contributes to this staggering environmental impact. Yet within this challenge lies unprecedented opportunity for transformation.

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Sustainable Community Living Projects Design Guide

CCR Magazine

Key Highlights Architects play a crucial role in designing community living projects that prioritize both environmental and social sustainability. Sustainable design in these projects includes focusing on energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, and green building materials.

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Next-gen insulation and its impact on the built industry

Construction Specifier

When evaluating the performance of new insulation material, critical performance parameters are thermal conductivity, compressive strength, water absorption, fire performance, corrosivity, and VOC. How are emerging insulation technologies addressing both thermal performance and sustainability? It depends.

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ResourceCo: Never a wasted opportunity

Roads Online

ResourceCo’s soil reuse and recycling function delivers sustainable soil solutions for infrastructure projects across Australia. Today, ResourceCo is one of the most diverse recyclers in the country, providing landfill avoiding resource recovery services alongside sustainable recycled products to multinational companies.

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Refine versus shine: Defining and defending design intent with refined concrete

Construction Specifier

Building on straightforward material testing and proven project successes, the industry is making significant strides toward developing accountable language and precise definitions that can be universally specified to address concrete floor challenges. Photo courtesy Bennett Build What is polished concrete, exactly?

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Mass Timber Buildings: Sustainable Path to Net Zero Goals

CCR Magazine

Whether they are leaning on public-private partnership (P3) or traditional delivery methods, owners and developers are recognizing the benefits of wood as a versatile, sustainable, and structurally efficient feature for their projects. “Mass timber offers cost and value considerations that developers and clients see as benefits.