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Oct 03, 2023

New Model Building Marks Turning Point in Efforts to Decarbonise Housing Construction

G&T hosted the launch of the New Model Building last week in partnership with Built by Nature. 

This groundbreaking project from Waugh Thistleton, in collaboration with Buro Happold, UCL and Gardiner & Theobald, includes a new set of design principles demonstrating how mass timber can be used safely to construct residential buildings up to 18m. 

The New Model Building is an exemplar methodology for building residential developments, illustrating how substitution of a traditionally constructed superstructure with engineered timber can reduce the embodied carbon footprint by over 50%, and demonstrating how this can be fire safe.

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G&T is proud to join Built by Nature's network of frontrunners, championing the greater use of biomaterials across the built environment.

G&T Joins Built by Nature's Frontrunners

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