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Re:As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building ... by duskwuff on Friday May 31, 2019 @02:55AM (#20058752)
Wooden houses catch fire relatively easily because they're made of many small pieces of wood. Larger, monolithic pieces of wood are considerably less flammable. (Imagine trying to start a campfire with a single log.)
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Re:As Mass Timber Takes Off, How Green Is This New Building ... by ahje on Friday May 31, 2019 @06:30AM (#20059667)
This. If a log house or similar construction burns, the walls are often left standing afterwards. Solid logs are really slow burners.
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