Posted on 01/14/2019 9:14:31 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Thanks, that is actually interesting.
B”rock tower https://www.archdaily.com/879625/inside-vancouvers-brock-commons-the-worlds-tallest-timber-structured-building";
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“student residence building at the University of British Columbia”
Cool. The more Canuck university-types stacked up in flammable housing, the better!
“T3 will soon be an apartment building. The Minneapolis city council just voted not to permit any future building of single dwelling units.”
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Is that your speculation or is that in the works?
Mpls actually used to be a great place to live, 40/50 years back.
To build such a skyscraper made of wood would be a remarkable feat of engineering and construction. My very first concern is that when all is said and done, wood is still flammable.
Why is someone ready to assume that risk, just to make history? When I was in the Navy, my first ship was a wooden one; a Minesweeper. It was small, at only 77 feet in length, and rendered somewhat safe by always floating on water.
How to build a skyscraper out of wood
One piece at a time?
Around here they call that stick built.
The article mentions massive prefabrication.
For a concrete highrise they usually, aim for a floor a week.
A good crew of flat shooters can move right along, but there are limits.
Sounds like just the stuff to build a pedestrian bridge in Florida with.
Nice, but not solid wood!
Appears that the first floor and the elevator, stairs and shearwalls, (the two tall columns) are reinforced concrete?
In case the beavers get out of hand?
No trees were killed.
McCormick Place was all steel and concrete.
Once the steel is heated, the strength goes down.
A flash fire can heat it quickly.
And legend has it that, the asbestos replacement does not adhere to the iron after a few years.
A flash fire may not ignite a large beam andthe sprinkler system will extinguish the fire before the loss of integrity.
Chicago has had a few fires in the old wooden building, they burn for days and do not collapse.
The building that was supposed to be fireproof and “outlast Rome’s glories” was consumed frighteningly fast. Smoke was reported by janitors at 2:05 a.m. on Jan. 16. By 2:30 a.m., when Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn arrived, he upgraded it to a five-alarm fire. Eighteen minutes later, he ordered the first special alarm.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-per-flash-mccormickplacefire-0205-20120205-story.html
800’, that’s going to be an awesome fire
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