Colorado School of Mines
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1500 Illinois Street
Golden, CO 80401
303-273-3932
Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is a recently developed heavy timber building material that has the potential to expand the wood building market. While much has been studied on CLT building system structural and fire behavior, little is known about the construction and in-service moisture performance of CLT buildings. This project will address the dearth of knowledge and data on CLT building moisture performance and modeling by conducting on-site monitoring of CLT building projects in different climate zones of the U.S. using wireless sensors. The project will also utilize laboratory testing characterization and state-of-the-art numerical modeling methods to overcome the knowledge gap in CLT building moisture performance and help boost confidence in building more large commercial CLT buildings in the U.S.
1. A well-documented and publically accessible monitoring dataset on CLT moisture performance on three building projects in the U.S. The data will be hosted at Colorado School of Mines data repository server and archived at Forest Products Laboratory.
2. A minimum of two journal publication manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals related to wood application in buildings. At least two conference publications and presentations at major structural engineering and wood engineering conferences.
3. A graduate student thesis on moisture monitoring of CLT buildings in the U.S.
4. A project website that will serve as a portal to provide access of all project reports, data, and publications.
5. Presentations to introduce the project findings at major wood conferences and practitioner educational events such as WoodWorks workshops.
6. A success story on on-site monitoring of CLT building moisture performance will be developed by the research team and be posted to the Wood Education and Resource Center Web site.
