Timber templates for net-zero construction take shape ahead of COP26
October 25 2021
Delegates attending next weeks COP26 climate conference in Glasgow are to be presented with a series of timber structures, exhibitions and spaces as part of a concerted effort to promote sustainable construction.
Among the projects awaiting delegates is the Cop26 House by Beyond Zero Homes and Roderick James Architects. Situated on the Clyde waterfront off McAlpine Street the domestic pavilion will demonstrate the materials and technologies necessary to build affordable and environmentally sensitive housing.
Built using homegrown Spruce the design employs a simple 1.2m grid to permit assembly by just two people and is suitable for larger-scale developments and off-site construction. Following the event, it will be dismantled and transported to Aviemore to stand as part of a development of 12 affordable timber homes.
Land around the Cop26 House has been set aside for complementary showcases including a demonstration of vertical farming technologies as part of the Sustainable Glasgow Landing event space. This will be joined by an appearance from Waugh Thistleton's MultiPly, the first large-scale structure to be built from modular cross-laminated timber in Britain, at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre in Blantyre - which will itself play host to a daily programme of events.
Also competing for attention will be the SNRG COP26 demonstrator, billed as Scotland's first homegrown home. Built to Passivhaus standards the home is the first cross, nail and glue laminated timber house to be built using materials solely grown, harvested and engineered in Scotland.
Elsewhere London Metropolitan University is to showcase their Home Grown House at Pacific Quay. The kit of parts demonstrator was designed by professor George Fereday using locally grown coppiced sweet chestnut with particular attention to minimising waste during milling.
The Conference of Parties will draw together representatives from 197 nations for two weeks from 31 October with the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above the pre-industrial climate through advocacy of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The NearHome project will retrofit public spaces into out-of-town alternatives to city centre offices
The SNRG demonstrator is billed as Scotland's first homegrown timber home
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Criminal that they sit on sites like these and watch the weeds grow.
What exactly are they waiting on?
What development would they consider to be suitable for this space -- Acme Industries Incorporated?
I fear that the Broomielaw will have its gap toothed smile for quite some time.