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"Regular" wood is already good enough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_MKE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_MKE

• aspenmayer 9mo ago
  It's hardly "regular wood" though, as the structure mentioned was constructed using a specific kind of engineered compressed wood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InventWood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InventWood > In 2018, [Liangbing] Hu's laboratory reported that partially removing lignin from natural wood and then compressing the remaining cellulose under heat produced a material roughly three times denser than the original timber and an order of magnitude stronger in bending and tension.[2] The material was commercially named Superwood. > [2]: https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature25476 https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature25476 | https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476
  • coryrc 9mo ago
    No, it was glulams, CLT, and LVLs. Nothing compressed particularly hard, just enough for the glue to hold.