Full Transcript for Mass Timber Market Updates - August 2025 - Week Thirty

project will be. 00:03:14.100 --> 00:03:22.730 I guess more details will come out as it's announced, but at the moment it looks like that halifax council is supporting mass timber, and that's always a good thing. 00:03:24.055 --> 00:03:29.968 Meta, the parent company of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, is changing how it builds its data centers. 00:03:29.968 --> 00:03:36.812 The company's begun using mass timber instead of steel and concrete to reduce the carbon footprint of its infrastructure. 00:03:36.812 --> 00:03:40.611 The decision targets the high emissions tied to the building materials. 00:03:40.611 --> 00:03:47.724 As meta expands its data center infrastructure and ai cloud systems, material choice now becomes a priority. 00:03:47.724 --> 00:03:55.955 The company's first administrative structure using mass timber is already complete in South Carolina, with another one underway in Alabama. 00:03:55.955 --> 00:04:02.652 The material offers potential to reduce around 40% of embodied carbon, according to industry assessments. 00:04:02.652 --> 00:04:09.046 Thank you very much, met Meta, for joining the race for mass timber and thanks for your support in your data centers. 00:04:10.308 --> 00:04:23.148 And we have an article on our LinkedIn feed that looks at prefab profiles, which is an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming how we build houses, from tiny prefab houses to modular kits. 00:04:23.148 --> 00:04:51.244 The brazilian architecture firm displayed in this week's prefab portfolio wanted to find a better way to serve their clients by streamlined design process, which led to a collaboration in manufacturing with crossland brazil on a prefab building system called modular bv, which allows buyers to configure the home and individual units with less than 300 square feet in each area. 00:04:51.244 --> 00:05:10.158 The the first prefab system using these modules is a single level residence built from engineered timber products, and it's commonly designed in the area with six modules, and we have some great shots of the units that you can see on our LinkedIn feed. 00:05:10.158 --> 00:05:21.279 So do hit up our LinkedIn feed and you'll be able to see what these prefab profiles and specifically what the Modularv company are doing. 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:34.439 And in an effort to cut emissions santa monica's carbon footprint, the city council is accepting a grant from the mass timber industry to explore shifting its constructing practices. 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:46.949 The hundred thousand dollar grant from the softwood Lumber Board will fund the program to evaluate the potential benefits of challenging and incorporating mass timber in place of traditional materials. 00:05:46.949 --> 00:06:10.755 The initial funding would be awarded for up to five building design teams to develop mass timber building designs, in addition to the community partner to support outreach and implementation and the transition from concrete and more traditional materials which, using mass timber, would help the city's efforts in reducing its carbon emissions by an additional 26 percent by 2030. 00:06:10.755 --> 00:06:16.456 If you want to see some more, there's a report and some infographics about what Santa Monica is doing. 00:06:16.456 --> 00:06:21.733 I think it's a great initiative and thank you to the Softwood Lumber Board for supporting such an initiative. 00:06:22.846 --> 00:06:43.175 And the New York CEDC unveils the next cohort of two groundbreaking initiatives advancing regulatory innovation and climate technologies with key partners, the City Economic Development Corporation and New Lab, unveiled the next two cohorts of NYC's Mass Timber Studio and the Resilient Energy Studio. 00:06:43.175 --> 00:06:49.593 Two groundbreaking initiatives are accelerating the way that we view climate forward technologies. 00:06:49.593 --> 00:06:55.894 The announcement advances the Green Economy Action Plan, which we have announced previously on this podcast. 00:06:55.894 --> 00:07:04.173 If you want to read some more about these two new announcements that have come out from the NYC EDC, you can head to our LinkedIn feed. 00:07:04.173 --> 00:07:14.814 And a new play attraction with two huge timber towers, each standing 10 meters tall, will be installed at the Stockton Waterfront Urban Park. 00:07:14.814 --> 00:07:26.459 The two towers, which are part of two large play areas and a wide range of community equipment and features, all influenced by the previous industrial heritage of the site. 00:07:26.459 --> 00:07:46.552 The team head by Timber Play, in collaboration with Rider Architecture, created these impressive play areas to form part of the Council of stockton's waterfront, creating an iconic new public space for residents, visitors, and will have a land bridge structure that connects the high street to the river. 00:07:46.552 --> 00:07:50.911 If you want to have a look at the concept drawings for this impressive building, you know where to go. 00:07:52.033 --> 00:07:52.694 That's it, folks. 00:07:52.694 --> 00:07:55.550 That's all we've got time for this week in mass timber construction land. 00:07:55.550 --> 00:08:01.052 We hope that you have an amazing week ahead and we'll catch up with you with more news from around the world next week. 00:08:01.052 --> 00:08:09.028 Don't forget to hit subscribe, like, comment, share anything on our social media page and thanks very much for your loyalty and listening to us. 00:08:09.028 --> 00:08:13.125 Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world. 00:08:13.125 --> 00:08:16.865 Today, this is paul kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. 00:08:16.865 --> 00:08:36.751 Thank you.