New LVL Design Tool with Hyne Design
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Nelson Pine LVL for new Parliament building
Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt Hon Gerry Brownlee and Parliamentary Service Chief Executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero led a visit to the Nelson Pine Industries timber plant which will be supplying material for Parliament’s new buildings.
The buildings are part of Parliament’s Future Accommodation Strategy, which aims to provide enough space on the parliamentary precinct for all elected representatives and staff.
“It’s important for this project to utilise New Zealand businesses and materials wherever possible. This visit has been a unique opportunity to actually see the facilities and meet the people who are contributing to Parliament’s new Museum Street building”, Rt Hon Gerry Brownlee said.
Nelson Pine Industries will be providing over 700 cubic meters of Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) timber, which will form part of the mass timber frame for the Museum St building. This is a form of construction where wooden panels are engineered to be used as a building structure instead of using steel or concrete.
“As well as being lighter and stronger than traditional steel or concrete structures, using a mass timber frame was the more environmentally conscious choice, and has been a crucial part of the buildings’ highly rated sustainability design”, Rt Hon Gerry Brownlee said.
Nelson Pine Industries Executive Director and CEO Kai Kruse said they were proud to be working with Parliamentary Service and LT McGuinness in the construction of the innovative, engineered timber building.
“Nelson Pine Industries is the largest wood processor in the South Island, and we only use logs from the top of the South Island to produce our high-performance Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL).
“As part of the building’s mass timber frame, our LVL will provide a high level of seismic resilience. This LVL also has outstanding green credentials, which will contribute to the Museum St building being net carbon zero. As part of the mass timber frame, it will sequester 201tons of carbon, helping the building’s design achieve its commendable 6-star Green Star rating.”
The new Parliament buildings are scheduled to be completed by late 2026.
NZ’s largest timber office building
Nelson Pine Industries Ltd has partnered with LT McGuinness Ltd in supplying approximately 1000m3 of Mass Timber Laminated Veneer Lumber to create the largest mass timber office building in New Zealand, 90 Devonport Road, Tauranga.
This exciting project will set new standards for sustainability in development and construction in New Zealand, targeting a 100% reduction in embodied carbon and six-star Green Star and five-star NABERS ratings.
Please view the One News Story about how NZ’s largest timber office building is taking shape in Tauranga’s CBD.
June 2024 Project Update
Nelson Airport stage one open for use
After a dawn ceremony on October 5 the first stage of the new Nelson Airport terminal building opened. From the outset the design team had worked creating an iconic gateway to the region, with an emphasis on local materials, most notably NelsonPine LVL. Stage 2, which will house departures, inbound baggage and the Air NZ Regional Lounge, is in manufacture and the full terminal will be open for business late 2019.
Nelson Airport terminal building
NPIL stars at NZ Timber Design Awards
The NZ Wood-Resene Timber Design Awards were held on September 20 in Auckland. NPIL sponsors these awards and in particular the category ‘Excellence in Engineered Wood Products’.
NelsonPine LVL was used in five of the finalists projects, with an admirable end result of three winners and highly commended out of ten categories. These were the Mount Pleasant Community Centre (Christchurch), The Otago Polytechnic Student Village (Dunedin), Kaikoura District Council building, Seafood Research Centre – Plant & Food Research (Nelson) & Ara Kahukura (Christchurch).
Kai Kruse (right) had the honour of presenting the Nelson Pine sponsored award, Excellence in Engineered Wood Products, to the Seafood Research Centre – Plant & Food Research (Nelson), designed by Nelson architect Simon Hall of JTB Architects.