May I suggest popsicle sticks?
Posted on 04/30/2017 5:08:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It's rare that a governor shows up to celebrate a new condo tower.
But this one's made of wood, and that's a bigger deal than it seems.
Gov. Kate Brown was on hand the day Carbon12 in North Portland reached its full eight stories and became the nation's tallest wood building. The feat was made possible by cross-laminated timber, wood engineered to have the strength of steel.
The distinction won't last long. Another Portland development, an 11–story high-rise made of the same wood product, is expected to secure a building permit within weeks and start construction this summer.
For Oregon, cross-laminated timber represents a chance to revive the moribund wood products industry, restoring logging and manufacturing jobs in rural communities — where the state's natural resources give it a clear advantage over foreign competitors.
The state is investing hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to promote CLT. Right now, only a handful of buildings in the U.S. have been built with it, and most are in Oregon....
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.
>>Seems like a really stupid idea to build skyscrapers out of wood.<<
One BBW Huff and puff — you would think they would learn from the skyscraper of straw incident.
One word: termites! :)
Oregon is a stupid idea to begin with.
Where are the Portlandia snowflakes screaming about the destruction of Mother Earth’s sensitive forest lands?
Pretty sure that the demand for wood products in the US is pretty strong. The reason we aren’t using Oregon (or Washington, California, Idaho, .....) wood is because of spotted owls and other ways of putting our natural resources out of reach.
We get a lot of wood from Canada and Russia now. If the enviroweenies really cared about the environment they would allow us to log more. I can only imagine what the Russian forest management procedures are like.
Maybe they should build them out of Giant Redwood.
Bug and fire resistant
I guess The Towering Inferno was before their time.
What happens when an eleven storey wooden building catches fire?
Ben Franklin once wondered about people who built their homes out of the same substance you heated the house and cooked your food with.
But, all the owls are gonna die!!!!!
That made me laugh.
Name them after the Spotted Owl
They make wooden areas:
Tacoma Dome (in Tacoma, WA)
17,000 seats for basketball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Dome
Superior Dome (in Marquette, MI)
8,000 seats for football
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_Dome
Liberalism is a mental disease. Now you know the rest of the story.
They should mandate wooden cars. Really make a genuine statement.
Because they haven’t gotten around yet to seizing the Rearden Metal.
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