Project contact is Pierre Blanchet at Université Laval (Canada)
Summary
It is reasonable to believe that a second generation of structural products will appear, bringing new properties and promoting the use of biobased materials in the construction of tall buildings. Among the possible development options, Corruven's Vcore and H-core products could offer second-generation material developments. The proposed project will be a product design project. A specification will be established and it will identify possible properties in the CLT structural multilayer product. Prototypes will be produced and tested to characterize them. An environmental characterization under development of the products will also be realized by applying the streamlined LCA method as proposed by Heidari et al. (2017). The optimized product will be fully characterized according to the application potential in the building (mechanical, fire, acoustic).