Posted on 09/09/2021 10:05:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
the high-rise hotel is built up from prefabricated 3D-modules in cross laminated timber (CLT), stacked between two elevator cores entirely made of CLT. the low-rise cultural center is built with columns and beams of glued laminated timber (GLT) and cores and shear walls in CLT. integrated structural design has eliminated the need for concrete entirely from the load bearing structure, speeding up construction and drastically reducing the building’s carbon footprint.
the wood is sourced from regional sustainable forests
(Excerpt) Read more at designboom.com ...
A note to the many visiting firemen with deep concerns. Please review the original "fireproof" Mcormaic place, Chicago all steel and concrete. Did not work very well.
Nice large woodpile to burn.
I guess it’ll stand until termites get to it.
Wood beams retain strength while the outside burns inward, giving time to fight, or to evacuate.
Steel gets hot and softens, fails catastrophically.
I am one of those people who wants any building I'm in to be engineered and built to withstand at least 8x any anticipated loads (I think the general standard is 4X). This being the case, that would be my biggest question about using wood for tall buildings.
Ikea kit coming soon ...
—”Steel gets hot and softens, fails catastrophically.”
That is a fact Jack!
The exhibition area did not have fire sprinklers or fire walls, and fireproof materials did not protect the steel roof supports. Also, most of the electrical wiring for the booths did not follow electrical safety standards, as the facility was still using temporary electrical systems for the exhibition areas. Most tragically, one McCormick Place security guard was killed in the fire, presumably because he could not find an unlocked emergency exit. Other employees who escaped the blaze confirmed that they had never been told how to find unlocked emergency exits.
https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=416856&p=2842772
—”I guess it’ll stand until termites get to it.”
Just asking, termites in Sweden?
If so, may have to nuke everything within a few hundred yards.
Agent Orange might work.
A sod dugout has a small carbon footprint too 😏
“I guess it’ll stand until termites get to it.”
The neighborhood I lived in as a youngster was built all-wood in 1947. ALl the houses are still in good shape.
And no one ever had termite service.
“A sod dugout has a small carbon footprint too.”
What do you have against beautiful wood structures?
World’s Tallest Timber Tower Rising In Milwaukee
https://www.wuwm.com/environment/2020-12-07/worlds-tallest-timber-tower-rising-in-milwaukee
Architect Jason Korb designed the 25-story building that will stretch to the sky. “They have to drive these pile foundations down up to 165 feet and you can see they are starting to weld several pieces of deep foundation together,” he explains.
“ And no one ever had termite service.”
The buildings likely had creasote soaked beams. Of course it was outlawed in 2003.
“neighborhood”
Concrete foundations/footers?
“Sweden”
Ahh, didn’t notice that part. Probably a lot safer there than in temperate areas.
I have watched multi story Apartment Buildings being erected all over Orange County CA. They are all constructed of Wood.
It isn’t the material used, it is how the material is pre fabricated and erected.
—”and built to withstand at least 8x any anticipated loads “
More than a few ways to be measured.
Live load, dead load, deflection limit, failure...
I used a lengthy glulam in my house, many friends said there might be visible checking under snow loads...
Thirty years and nothing to write about.
And adjacent drywall is still AOK!
You mush have grown up in a northern climate.
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