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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 int
by 2sk21 10y ago
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.
- magicbuzz 10y agohttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/all-timber-apartments-assembled-like-flat-packed-furniture/8301308 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/all-timber-apartments-... Saw this recently on this subject.
- arjie 10y agoMy 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/ http://www.nextportland.com/2016/07/21/framework-dz1/ Their projects page lists a couple of other buildings: https://structurecraft.com/projects https://structurecraft.com/projects
- jimnotgym 10y agoCan'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.
- tajen 10y agoWe 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 https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=bamboo+scaffolding