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Majority construction anywhere is whatever can be built with the least cost. In the US and Canada timber framing for buildings under about 6 feet is least cost
by toast0 9mo ago
Majority construction anywhere is whatever can be built with the least cost.
In the US and Canada timber framing for buildings under about 6 feet is least cost. Other places without a lot of timber availability tend to build with other things.
- mayoff 9mo agoI'm pretty sure you meant something other than "buildings under about 6 feet".
- rationalist 9mo agoI think they meant what they wrote, they just forgot some punctuation. 'timber framing (for buildings) under about 6 feet'
- quickthrowman 9mo agoI assume they meant “five-over-one”, five floors of stick built (framed with dimensional lumber, not timber) apartments on top of a concrete and steel first floor. Timber framing is something else entirely, you can construct buildings taller than six stories with engineered wood products. > The mid-rise buildings are normally constructed with four or five wood-frame stories above a concrete podium, usually for retail or resident amenity space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1