Re:How to Steal a River
by 2sk21 on Saturday March 04, 2017 @05:50AM
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Engineered lumber is quite common in the US for smaller buildings. When we renovated our house, the builder used an I-beam made of such material. I would be interested to hear if this is also being used for larger structures - I doubt if it would be possible to make a 10 story building out of wood.
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My uncle works at a company that's involved in this proposed 11 story wood building in Portland: http://www.nextportland.com/2016/07/21/framework-dz1/
Their projects page lists a couple of other buildings: https://structurecraft.com/projects
Can't find a link right now, but I did read an article on skyscrapers being designed out of engineered timber. I think it is something about using the whole box as structure, whereas in a steel building the curtain walling is just dead load. We simply cannot keep building out of concrete, as this story shows.
We all have the same doubts about wood. Seeing skyscraper scaffoldings in bamboo might change our perception of physics ;) https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=bamboo+scaffolding
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/all-timber-apartments-...
Saw this recently on this subject.