1112_工程木材特論 SPECIAL TOPICS ON ENGINEERED TIMBER

在過去的二十年，隨著極端氣候變化，我們見證了營建產業以及溫室氣體對於氣候變化造成的巨大影響。混凝土和鋼鐵的使用，除了產生了大量的碳足跡，生產這些材料也消耗了大量的能源；混凝土生產所產生的二氧化碳約佔全球放的5％，這相當於整個航空產業的5倍以上。很明顯，我們建造的基礎材料值得重新評估，我們正處在營建歷史上的一個重要的時刻，當需求產生了變化，我們開始重新思考過去如何建造以及未來該怎麼建造的一些基本問題。
Over the past twenty years, as the world’s understanding of climate change has evolved, we have seen the large impact that buildings contribute to the greenhouse gases causing climate change. Concrete and steel have a large carbon footprint and are highly energy intensive materials to produce. Concrete production represents roughly 5% of world CO2 emissions, which reflects more than 5 times the airline industry as a whole. It is clear that the very fundamentals of what we build with are worth re-evaluating. We are in a unique moment in architectural and building engineering history when shifting world needs has asked us to question some of the fundamentals of how we have built for the last century and how we will build in the next?

本課程將針對對於氣候環境更為永續友善的自然建築材料：木材，進行深入探討，結合理論、全球趨勢以及國內產業的盤點，理解工程木材於營建產業的應用以及未來。