Sydney’s new houses go up “Like Lego”
“The construction industry is slow and is becoming slower,” he said. “I worked for 40 years in Australia. We used a house in nine months – 12 months at most. Then it was a year and a half.”
Now for two years. This was not workers’ fault, said Rosselli, but increasingly complex regulations, quality qualification and management requirements and responsibilities that often required a trade to finish before another could start.
Drawing by Luigi Rossell of his new project in Bondi Junction. Credit: Luigi Rosselli
Responding to the comments on Instagram, Rosselli said: “The big difference is time and accuracy. (It is) six months for the entire project, including some traditional exchanges such as yeasts and windows. This is more than 50-70 percent of a standard duration of the construction site. Therefore, therefore, it was not able to risk without risk.
It was the first time of the practice using CLT. “And I have to say, it will not be the last. It is a truly wonderful material. It is so precise the way they produce the binding wood panels.”
His practice was the monitoring of costs and the impact of the project on the environment. The manufacturer, Xlam, estimates that the use of 173 cubic meters of CLT, made with pine trees grown in the Australian plantations, would store 80.63 tons of CO2-EQ (carbon), the same environmental impact of taking 60 cars from the roads.
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Caroline Pidcock, an architect and expert in sustainability, said that it was “absolutely critical” that designers like Rosselli opened the way in Build beautiful and sustainable. “There is a real responsibility for the architects to look at them, the press and also do customers.”
Rosselli has spent his career in an attempt to educate his customers, many at the top of wealth in Australia, on the advantages of using recycled materials.
“The impact I can have with them is sometimes 10 or 12 times that of a small project,” he said.
“If I can convince a millionaire, a billionaire, to reuse an existing building … it has a greater impact. We were quite missionary in an attempt to convince customers to use the rammed land, which has a very low CO2 component.”
Often incorporates existing structures. His most famous project so far, the Tamarama promontory owned by David Druga who has recently been approved, has aroused public criticism for the demolition of the old California bungalow called Lang Syne. Rosselli will reuse the bricks, the roof tiles and the Lang Syne sandstone.
Designed as a low-cost version of a terrace, the houses use prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT). Credit: Pickles Edwina
The practice professor of the Monash University Karl-Heinz Weiss introduced CLT on the United Kingdom market in early 2000 and was involved in over 150 projects.
Weiss said that unlike the concrete, which produces carbon, CLT is made of timber that stages carbon and has been the only sustainable and renewable construction material that can be used on a large scale.
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The larger panels were about 3.3 meters per 16 meters. “This gives you assembly speed because you don’t have many pieces,” he said.
Australia had two factories that produced CLTs and other manufacturing and components that produce glue.
Weiss said that CLT was generally more suitable for four -storey projects at the top. Larger projects that use CLT, like 180 meters Atlassian headquartersCement or steel for stability is required.
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