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30 story wood high rise building

Christ.

Go for it, Canada.

Just keep it at least 30 stories north of the border.
 
permitguy said:
Marshmallows and hot dogs are on me. Bring your own cooking stick.
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Cooking sticks are apparently supplied by the host. Just be careful to pick it up by the end that isn't cooking, if there is one.
 
Given the amount of technology already required in a traditional non-combustible tall building, it seems plausible with appropriate fire protection measures. Keep in mind that when it comes to tall buildings, we are already talking about high performance systems.
 
Brudgers, most contractors can't build a complying Fire Wall in a two-story apartment complex in three tries.

Getting the equivalent of Type I protection for a 30 story wood structure might be possible on paper, but so is time travel.
 
And, they are working on high performance trees right now. 20ksi tension and compressive strength, modulus of elasticity of at least 30000ksi, non shrink. And, to get extra LEED points they want the trees to grow to harvesting size in two years. Just think of all the carbon they can sequester. I wonder who financed this study? It’ll be interesting reading to see how they tackle some of the real high rise problems.
 
All I know is that I'm wouldn't be checking nail spacing for shear. Can't get spacing right one story homes as it is now. But then anything is possible.
 
That's easy; they'll throw some of that "high impact sheetrock" at the exit enclosures and call the whole sh!t'n thing not only green, but bombproof.

Anyone heard of Angry Birds?

Oh, and we used to have high performance forests that produced elements that exceeded the properties you described. They were forests that grew all along the Monongahela River in Western Pennsylvania.

dhengr said:
And, they are working on high performance trees right now. 20ksi tension and compressive strength, modulus of elasticity of at least 30000ksi, non shrink. And, to get extra LEED points they want the trees to grow to harvesting size in two years. Just think of all the carbon they can sequester. I wonder who financed this study? It’ll be interesting reading to see how they tackle some of the real high rise problems.
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some Code Official somewhere is buying this? having said that, I've seen 100 year old 11 story wood buildings.. brick exteriors, so they can be sneaky to classify...
 
"30 storey" I can't find "storey" definition in the IBC...prolly gonna be built by Hobbits, Canadian Hobbits.
 
Do not get too excited! The article only talks about conceptual possibility. The devil is in the details.
 
It's Canada eh? Anything is possible. They allow a owner / design team to hire a consultant to perform the role of the building department and have the permit issued.
 
Who knows, maybe they can surprise us all with a cost effective green solution. It sounds too theoretical to me, though. On a side note, the Tacoma dome roof structure is all wood and IMHO a very nice space to be in. I think it was the first of it's kind and I'm not sure it's been duplicated since. There's also a wood roof truss dome in Moscow Id (The Kibbie Dome). Those don't really compare to a 30 story building, but I'm sure there were plenty of skeptics on both those projects.
 
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