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Are there good alternative building materials? Perhaps wood? Edit: It seems I am shadow banned. I am going to take this as a deep insult.
by terminalhealth 7y ago
Are there good alternative building materials? Perhaps wood?
Edit: It seems I am shadow banned. I am going to take this as a deep insult.
- lwelyk 7y agoI can see your comments, I don't think you're shadowbanned.
- Scoundreller 7y agoWood works. There are some new methods to glue sheets together to make long structural beams and much taller buildings than before. Cross-Laminated timber or CLT. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-laminated_timber 12 and 18 storey structures have been built. As far as fires go, yes, they will burn eventually, but they won’t weaken as quickly as steel. You get more time to evacuate.
- esotericn 7y agoAwesome. Outside of a few strange political situations like HK/Singapore we probably don't actually need to build structures higher than 12-18 stories as well - most examples I can think of are vanity projects. It strikes me that there might not be a replacement for concrete in other forms of building though - what about dams, bridges, etc?
- Scoundreller 7y agoThey’ve built bridges (or at least a bridge) with this kind of wood.
- xwdv 7y agoNo, it’s worse. You are not shadow banned, people just don’t care about what you have to say.
- terminalhealth 7y agoI think my comment has been vouched for.
- okcando 7y agoHarsh.
- xwdv 7y agoI agree, this is a harsh place.
- hanuman 7y agoHemp, yo! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.08.181 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.08.181 Yeah, wood, too. https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wood-skyscrapers/ https://www.wired.com/2017/05/wood-skyscrapers/