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Zmags
AUTUMN 2009
www.timber-building.com
Wood Awards winners
push the boundaries
Gothic goes hi-tech
Scarlet hotel offers
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ush Hie boundaries
Scarlet hotel offers
a green retrea
OPENING SHOTS:
The cover and this page show the new £16m John Hope
Gateway green oak and glulam-framed visitor centre at the
Edinburgh Royal Botanic Gardens, featured on p16. Other
cutting-edge timber buildings in this edition include the
Scarlet eco-hotel (p4), the Wood Awards-winning Kings Place
Concert Hall (p8) and Stewart Milne Timber Systems' new
Sigma II housing concept (p12). And we also look at hi-tech
design meeting Gothic timber building technique (p20).OPENING SHOTS:
The cover and this page show the new ??16m John Hope
Gateway green oak and glulam-framed visitor
AUTUMN 2009 www.timber-building.com
OPENING SHOTS: The cover and this page show the
CASE STUDIES 4 Room with an eco-view
INTERACTIVE Perched on a Cornish hillside overloo
ECO-HOTEL Left: the rear of the mu
ECO-HOTEL ! KVH timber
5 THE COST-EFFICIENT BUILDING MATERIAL – SO
WOOD AWARDS 2009 KINGS TAKES Gold Award/Comme
THE CROWN Structural Deal Pier & Café Bar, Deal
WOOD AWARDS 2009 Conservation/Restoration The Me
Furniture Elan Outdoor Furniture Gloster Furnitu
ECO BUILDING AMONG THE STRIKING features of Ste
ECO BUILDING To improve thermal bridging furthe
WIEHAG Two circul
make as many of the connections as uniform as pos
BOTANIC GARDENS THERE CAN SURELY BE no more obv
GATEWAYS The staircase provides a “kinet
REGENERATION Cultural Anne McDonald reports on a
EXCHANGE which meet the desires of those who reje
GOTHIC BUILDERS accomplished incredible feats wit
CHURCH ARCHITECTURE To minimise the degree to w
POLE BUILDING TIGERS DON'T ACTUALLY seem to do
POLE BUILDING The roof of the building had to ac
OAK FRAME In the frame Green oak frame specialist
supplier” sawmills, which deliver the resulting b
OAK FRAME ! up underneath the breather paper. R
SHINGLES AND CLADDING Eco COVER-UP Timber cladd
SHINGLES AND CLADDING ! Contractors are pushing
Alpine ambience from Sivalbp Near Thônes in the
TREATMENTS
new from Wolman! Premium Quality Scots Pine Deck
TREATMENTS ! coated or you'd get a reaction in
GLULAMTIMBERCONSTRUCTION PROJECT CONSTRUCTIONS T
TECHNICAL – MODIFIED WOOD IMPROVING ON ONE OF THE
NATURE? throughout the wood structure. Wood is th
TECHNICAL – CONNECTIONS MAKING THE CONNECTION T
Clockwise from top left: node detail at Haberdash
TECHNICAL – DRYING ON SITE RESTARTING timber
Care must be taken if the building work continues
NEWS Lightweight lofts launched A new lightwe
NEWS Industry rallies around new timber campaig
NEWS Lowfield achieves certification Lowfield
UKTFA The cost of comfort A new report commission
SUSTAINABLE SLIP RESISTANT DECKING · Two profile