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existing A-Block campus building that dates back to BENEFITS OF TIMBER
1990. Rather than raze a perfectly sound building—
and creating thousands of tonnes of waste—the Using mass timber for construction above the
decision was made to add to the building and give it foundation displaces the use of concrete, a
a second life as the showpiece of the main campus. material which causes a detrimental amount of
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