CRADLE Book: Hybrid Timber (eBook)

Mixed Construction for Carbon Storage

Chris van Uffelen (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
240 Seiten
ff Publishers (Verlag)
978-3-945539-55-2 (ISBN)

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Hybrid timber construction is a sustainable and climate-friendly method of construction in which wood plays a major role, partly replacing concrete, stone, or steel. However, building regulations, fire protection, or other problems often present obstacles to pure timber construction, necessitating the use of hybrid timber. The volume Hybrid Timber Building showcases 50 projects, from family homes to large office buildings, that address these challenges and were constructed using timber hybrid construction.

Textauszug

Why Hybrid Timber Construction? Building with wood is not only a climate-friendly construction method in itself, but also a way of reducing the rising CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. Timber hybrid construction is the pragmatic cousin. Wood can counteract man-made climate change. The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) - or more precisely greenhouse gases in CO2 equivalents - in the atmosphere is more or less linearly related to the rise in temperatures. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution around 1850 to 1900, they have risen significantly. Unlike the regenerating ozone layer, for example, these CO2eq will change on their own. If humanity wants to limit the rize in temperature to 1.5° C since around industrialization - the original goal of the Paris Climate Agreement - it is possible to say quite precisely how much CO2 the atmosphere should contain: around 800 gigatons. At the beginning of 2023, the remaining budget for this target was 250 gigatons, which would also be used up in six years based on current emissions. Now, permanently exceeding the 1.5° or 2° C limit would not be the downfall of humanity or the planet, as the limit was defined in Paris in 2015 in order to mitigate the well-known negative consequences and not exceed any of the so-called tipping points at which the climate system becomes unpredictable or the change irreversible. One of these tipping points relates directly to the construction industry and clearly illustrates the dilemma facing many of the measures being taken to combat climate change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2025
• Sprache: deutsch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• ISBN-10: 3-945539-55-2 / 3945539552
• ISBN-13: 978-3-945539-55-2 / 9783945539552