According to the news, Australia is going to build the world’s highest wooden tower in western Australia. The tower will reach a height of 191 metres with 50 stories. South Perth’s C6 beams, floor panels, studs, joinery, and tower linings will be 42% wood.
The Metro Inner-South Joint Development Assessment Panel in Perth authorised the Grange Development at 6 Charles Street on Thursday. The building will have over 200 flats.
The inventors say it will store more carbon than it uses, making it carbon-negative. It will also use less steel and concrete than conventional construction. Instead of concrete, it will use stronger, lighter, and renewablely glued laminated and cross-laminated wood.
In Sydney’s CBD, Atlassian’s 180-metre hybrid timber headquarters is under development. The 25-story Wisconsin timber skyscraper, The Ascent, is the world’s tallest. It stands 86.6 metres tall.
Reade Dixon, architect and Fraser & Partners founder, says the design, which has no construction date, is unique in a sector that hasn’t modified its commercial development method in 70 years.
The architects projected that a single, properly managed forestry zone could replace 7,400 cubic meters of wood in 59 minutes.
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The project website states that “C6 will consume approximately 580 pine trees sourced from sustainably managed and farmed forests.” “Cement cannot be grown here.”
The C6 rooftop will have food and flower plants.
Dixon said the project’s wood will come from XLam, Australia’s largest bulk timber provider, in Albury, New South Wales, or from Europe on abandoned iron ore ships returning to Western Australia.
The developer’s claims failed to account for end-of-life timber carbon costs, according to University of Wollongong Sustainable Buildings Research Centre head Timothy McCarthy.
Wood waste’s landfill fate is being changed. After rotting or burning, wood releases CO2. He said, “The IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] only takes materials into permanent sequestration.”
McCarthy said 40% of trees are cut down for lumber and 40% are recycled into paper, mulch, or plant materials. This applies even when the design uses only sustainable timber.
The opulent design was a “tough task,” but he liked the project’s approach.
“[C6’s] goals deserve praise, and if it can achieve sustainability for the duration of the building, we are reshaping the landscape, especially in Western Australia, where the climate is extremely severe,” stated
Fraser and Partners will licence all technical project materials open-source. Dixon suggests increasing mass timber development in the built environment to combat climate change.
“We sincerely hope that it pushes the industry to produce better work on future projects,” stated
Construction emits 11% of global carbon, with cement emitting 8%. WA produced 81.7 million metric tonnes of CO2 in 2020, over 16% of Australia’s total.
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