27 April, 2022

Built by Nature Fund projects

Built by Nature Fund Project: Establishing and coordinating a Spanish mass timber network

By Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qek4KZ2ceII&t=8s

Built by Nature’s Fund stimulates the ideas and team collaboration to accelerate the mass timber building transformation. This funded project with the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya (IAAC) in Barcelona is about establishing and coordinating a Spanish mass timber network, with exhibitions and content designed to accelerate projects. Collaboration with the European Forest Institute also ensures that the full spectrum of the timber value chain is engaged. 

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Built by Nature Fund Project: New Model Building project

By Waugh Thistleton Architects
With University College London and Buro Happold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XLtmjeGIW0

Built by Nature’s Fund is now open for applications. If you and your teams have ideas about transforming the built environment through mass timber, we want to hear from you. Here’s an example of the type of projects we support, presenting Waugh Thistleton Architects with UCL and Buro Happold’s New Model Building Project – an innovative and cost-efficient approach to building pre-warrantied, multi-storey mass timber housing.

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Built by Nature Fund Project: New financing models for bio-based housing

By Holland Houtland

https://youtu.be/5pDubnLHJ70

Innovative, scalable financing will be key to accelerating the adoption of mass timber construction – the type of challenge Built by Nature’s Accelerator Fund is looking to support. In this video, Holland Houtland’s Chantal van Schaik describes how to devise a new financing model based on the four fundamental principles required to redefine value in bio-based social housing.

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