{"id":21343,"date":"2018-09-20T09:45:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=21343"},"modified":"2018-09-20T09:45:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T08:45:57","slug":"sustainable-building-could-help-solve-uk-housing-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/news\/sustainable-building-could-help-solve-uk-housing-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable building could help solve UK housing shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the country strives to build more homes to meet the growing demands of the property market, could affordable, carbon-neutral building be the answer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first UK-built sustainable structure manufactured from British cross-laminated timber (CLT) – a manufactured timber that can offer a cost-effective alternative to other materials – has just gone on show in Sackler Courtyard at the V & A Museum in South Kensington, London until October 2018.<\/p>\n

The nine-metre high wooden pavilion made from American tulipwood has been created by the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre. It is being showcased to underline how innovative design<\/a> and construction can offer an affordable, zero emission building solution to the UK\u2019s housing shortage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Architects Waugh Thistleton collaborated with the American Hardwood Export Council and ARUP to come up with the new MultiPly concept; a structure demonstrating the suitability of modular cross-laminated construction as a carbon-neutral<\/a> answer to the UK\u2019s need to build more new, cost-effective houses at a faster rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On-site assembly can speed up building process<\/h4>\n

The timber pavilion comprises 17 individual modules<\/a> which are linked by digitally fabricated joints. The entire structure can be transported as a flat pack and then assembled by slotting components together on-site. This technique is being celebrated by the creators as a viable building option that can be scaled up to assist and speed up building some of the 250,000 new homes needed each year across the UK to meet growing demand.<\/p>\n

Constructed from a complex stack of stairs, spaces and corridors that are interconnected and overlap, the pavilion offers visitors a labyrinthine experience to explore state of the art construction techniques and materials.<\/p>\n

Addressing environmental challenges<\/h4>\n

Andrew Waugh, co-founder of Waugh Thistleton Architects, said: “The main ambition of this project is to publicly debate how environmental challenges<\/a> can be addressed through innovative, affordable construction.<\/p>\n

“We are at a crisis point in terms of housing and CO2 emissions and believe that building in a versatile, sustainable material such as tulipwood is an important way of addressing these issues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the country strives to build more homes to meet the growing demands of the property market, could affordable, carbon-neutral building be the answer? The first UK-built sustainable structure manufactured from British cross-laminated timber (CLT) – a manufactured timber that can offer a cost-effective alternative to other materials – has just gone on show in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":21350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,63,341],"class_list":["post-21343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-housing-market","tag-housebuilding","tag-housing-shortage","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}