The New Model Building: piloting post-Grenfell holistic design of medium-rise residential buildings in timber

This month's report discusses a critical safety issue concerning folded timber roofs, in various settings, including over school halls.

The light weight and prefabricated nature of cross-laminated timber make it an ideal candidate for retrofit and extension projects, argues Alex Lynes. It just needs to be detailed well for durability.

Jonathan Skinner, James Morton and Alan Dowdall of Ramboll describe their work to refine the inputs to an activity-based approach to calculating A4 carbon emissions for mass timber, and encourage the industry to go further by reporting actual fuel usage for transportation.