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Sustainability in practice – direct reuse of structural timber

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Project idea and objective

The project investigates how structural timber can be assessed and reused as load-bearing structures in new buildings. The project investigates how a non-destructive testing method can be used to assess the capacity of the timber. The evidence is assessed on the basis of destructive tests.

The project is based on a specific case with reuse of the timber roof structures from the demolition of 363 row houses.

As a part of the project, a large experimental programme is designed to establish statistical evidence that can be used as fundamental background for the statistical evaluation when assessing the capacity of future reuse cases.

The project aims to establish experimental evidence and practical experience for circular construction with the reuse of timber structures in the future. An important part of the experimental evidence is to establish greater knowledge about the statistical variation of the strength properties of timber structures.

News  item from Tv2FYN (external link)

Participants SDU
Project Leader; 
Henrik Brøner Jørgensen, University of Southern Denmark

Participating companies

Rex-Skov Arkitekter

BRAV Rådgivdende Ingeniører

Enemærke & Petersen A/S

LH Hockerup A/S

Stark

Financing: We Build Denmark, Danmarks Erhvervsfremmebestyrelse og medvirkende partnere

Period: August 2023 – Oktober 2024

https://webuilddenmark.dk/inno-samarbejde/baeredygtighed-i-praksis-direkte-genbrug-af-konstruktionstrae/

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  • Campusvej 55
  • Odense M - DK-5230
  • Phone: +45 6550 7450

Last Updated 03.08.2024