Art Massif and Silver Maple Construction
Art Massif and Silver Maple Construction partner on a lower-carbon industrial building system. Preliminary comparison scenarios are being developed based on a recently-completed glulam hybrid airplane hangar. Enclosure details will be added soon to showcase Silver Maple’s integrated systems…
First, an as-built model of the 210’ span glulam hybrid truss system was compared in 3d volumetric detail with a steel-framed equivalent that was considered in an earlier phase of the project.
A comparative scenario software used for reporting to the province of Quebec was used with actual quantity inputs, to return an industry-average GHG value for the tonnage of glulam, bolts, and steel profiles and plates.
According to the GHG values used in this estimator, the embodied carbon footprint of the hybrid truss is only about a third of the steel option.
Studies are being developed using the most environmentally friendly steel and wood options for future projects, using the mill-level EPD data available on the open-sourced database EC3 provided by www.buildingtransparency.org. Even with the best achievable steel like this example from Nucor, employing hybrid structure design in this case would still be in the range of half the footprint of a steel structure.
Come back soon for results of the wall and roof systems being developed by Silver Maple and Art Massif to bring the maximum embodied carbon benefit to the enclosure of your next industrial building.