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one of the world’s tallest timber buildings is completed by white arkitekter
Designboom ^ | 8 Sept 2021 | kat barandy

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 ...


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An attractive interior, I do like it. Guessing it to be economically viable for the local market?

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.

1 posted on 09/09/2021 10:05:09 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Nice large woodpile to burn.


2 posted on 09/09/2021 10:08:34 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I guess it’ll stand until termites get to it.


3 posted on 09/09/2021 10:10:04 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Wood beams retain strength while the outside burns inward, giving time to fight, or to evacuate.

Steel gets hot and softens, fails catastrophically.


4 posted on 09/09/2021 10:12:51 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: DUMBGRUNT
I agree, the interior is beautiful.

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.

5 posted on 09/09/2021 10:15:16 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Reno89519

Ikea kit coming soon ...


6 posted on 09/09/2021 10:16:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Claiming Racism, the antidote to personal responsibility)
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To: Scrambler Bob

—”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


8 posted on 09/09/2021 10:19:01 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Reminds me of Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. He uses a lot of wood in his projects.


9 posted on 09/09/2021 10:21:20 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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—”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.


10 posted on 09/09/2021 10:22:41 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A sod dugout has a small carbon footprint too 😏


11 posted on 09/09/2021 10:23:14 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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“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.


12 posted on 09/09/2021 10:24:15 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: NWFree

“A sod dugout has a small carbon footprint too.”

What do you have against beautiful wood structures?


13 posted on 09/09/2021 10:25:29 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


14 posted on 09/09/2021 10:29:02 AM PDT by UB355 (Slow Traffic keep right)
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“ And no one ever had termite service.”

The buildings likely had creasote soaked beams. Of course it was outlawed in 2003.


15 posted on 09/09/2021 10:30:10 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: TexasGator

“neighborhood”

Concrete foundations/footers?


16 posted on 09/09/2021 10:30:41 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Sweden”

Ahh, didn’t notice that part. Probably a lot safer there than in temperate areas.


17 posted on 09/09/2021 10:32:03 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DUMBGRUNT

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.


18 posted on 09/09/2021 10:34:27 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Trump - Make America Great Again / Xiden - Make America Grovel Again...)
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To: neverevergiveup

—”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!


19 posted on 09/09/2021 10:35:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: TexasGator

You mush have grown up in a northern climate.


20 posted on 09/09/2021 10:39:59 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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