Melbourne's 'Library at the Dock' is sustainable forerunner of bigger things

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elbourne’s “Library at the Dock” is built primarily from timber.

Melbourne's 'Library at the Dock'.

The impressive three storey building serves the Docklands community as is an example of what can be to create and interesting and innovative building in a carbon constrained world.

The library was designed and built with the community in mind and through its construction also answers broader societal needs in that it is the outcome of a more sustainable building process.

Building processes used in “Library at the Dock” employing laminated timbers, it has been argued, are adequate for a 10 storey building and now in British Columbia they have just built a 17-storey “skyscraper” using timber as the primary construction material.

Read the Treehugger story - “World's tallest timber tower to be built in British Columbia”.