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.
Oregon is a stupid idea to begin with.
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.
I guess The Towering Inferno was before their time.
What happens when an eleven storey wooden building catches fire?
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
Let's hope the engineers know what they are doing.
One thing about wood: at high temperatures, it keeps its strength longer that steel.
Steel beams, at high temperatures, lose strength rapidly and collapse. At that point, the building goes down immediately.
Yes, wood will eventually burn up. But a beam that has started to burn will hold its strength for some time. Char slows down the burning process.
Termites? Wood bees?
These buildings would be easy to bug.
Laminated wood beams went into our house, built in ‘02. Also, upright 2 x 4s were laminated pieces, cut to the exact need.
I understand a two story house is not the same at this place in Oregon.
Safer in a fire. Unlike steel, wood won’t melt in a fire. It maintains structural integrity until it burns through.
Not so. There's been a lot of wood skyscrapers built in Europe, using modern techniques. Just as safe as metal and concrete skyscrapers, both of which had the same interiors and furnishings as the wood skyscrapers.
Termites.