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Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al

Could we build a wooden skyscraper? - Stefan Al

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Explore the viability of wooden skyscrapers, and see how cross-laminated timber (CLT) helps make these once impossible structures possible. Towering 85 meters above the Norwegian countryside, Mj st rnet is the world s tallest wooden building, made almost entirely from the trees of neighboring forests. But as recently as the end of the 20th century, engineers thought it was impossible to build a wooden building over 6 stories tall. So how do wooden structures like this compare to steel and concrete skyscrapers? Stefan Al investigates. Help: Why don't we use wood for skyscrapers?
Because of that, as you get higher, wooden buildings counter-intuitively have to be stiffer than steel or concrete, says Ramage. This is your fault as a human, really: Buildings have to sway in the wind or earthquakes so they fail, but they can't sway too quickly, or they'll make their occupants seasick.

Date: 2021-07-06

Comments and reviews: 9


What is the biggest obstacle to building wood skyscrapers?
The main concern for most skyscrapers is their sheer weight
The lift shaft and stairwell is made of concrete, but all the beams and columns and floors are made of wood. As you enter the building you don't see any wood at all. That's because of fire safety it's all covered with fire-proof gypsum board, he says

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Are wooden skyscrapers safe?
Results of the tests were used to demonstrate that light timber frame buildings could meet the functional safety requirements that would be required for non-combustible steel or concrete buildings. . As a result, the use of CLT has been adopted into the prescriptive building codes in the US and Canada.

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The resulting wooden towers -- sometimes dubbed plyscrapers -- were once the preserve of conceptual designers. But thanks to changes in building regulations and shifting attitudes towards the material, they are quickly becoming a reality. A slew of new timber high-rises is set to break ground or open in
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2: 28 concrete can also be prefabricated and actually has been succesfully used in this form in the cold war era where housing was desperatley needed for people who lost their house in WW2, and prefabricates housing and buildings were much easier and faster to build.
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I love how our perception of eco-friendly changes over time. It was not to cut down trees at first and use concrete, plastic bags and all, now it's more like let's go back to wood and paper bags and all that good stuff.
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Me and my family often anchor our boat at the harbor right beside the tower and take a cup of coffee at the restaurant there. It just looks like any random building, but it is in fact the worlds largest in wood.
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This is hopeful, but I'm still doubting it could hold up nearly as well in its state. Yes, panels could be swapped, but the durability of wood could mean damage reaches deeper more easily.
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Ok some good points here but while wood is a renewable material in theory, it takes time to grow and we don't have enough to use it as a substitute for everything as of rn. :/
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