jar546
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What is the tallest wood-frame building you are seeing?
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Wood High Rise Construction
- Thread starter jar546
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In our area R2's 4 stories. curious how tall the Notre Dame cathedral was/is? With global warming and rising timber prices, a catch 22. I wouldn't count out 3D printing in some form of plant based fibrous building material going into the future. Interesting though.
steveray
SAWHORSE
5 stories of FRTW gets you there light frame IIIA sprinklered...R2
It depends on whether we call mass timber wood-framed. https://www.carbon12pdx.com/ in Portland, Oregon, is eight stories of mass timber.
Ascent, under construction in Milwaukee, looks like 18 stories of timber over Type IA parking. Timber allowable height is greatly increased in the 2021 IBC.
Ascent, under construction in Milwaukee, looks like 18 stories of timber over Type IA parking. Timber allowable height is greatly increased in the 2021 IBC.
ADAguy
Registered User
Highest point +/- 345' (30 stories?) ? how many feet to a story.
Several misrepresentations and the video glosses over some issues.
Yes wood will be used in taller buildings but not necessarily in the way the video suggests. CLT floors will work for most moderate spans when there are not too many openings
The implicit comparison of a tall Japanese temple with a residential building is suspect to say the least.
A major problem has to do with columns and lateral bracing in tall buildings. While wood is strong in proportion to its weight you will find it necessary to use steel or concrete columns in significantly tall buildings. Splicing wood members to resist the forces you will see in tall buildings is not feasible.
They glossed over the problem of where this wood will come from if we ramp up the demand. I also suspect that at the end of the economic life of the building the wood will be either burned or left to rot thus releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere.
Engineered lumber will find more uses and code provisions imposing arbitrary limits will be modified but we will find that the world of the future will still not be built out of all wood.
Yes wood will be used in taller buildings but not necessarily in the way the video suggests. CLT floors will work for most moderate spans when there are not too many openings
The implicit comparison of a tall Japanese temple with a residential building is suspect to say the least.
A major problem has to do with columns and lateral bracing in tall buildings. While wood is strong in proportion to its weight you will find it necessary to use steel or concrete columns in significantly tall buildings. Splicing wood members to resist the forces you will see in tall buildings is not feasible.
They glossed over the problem of where this wood will come from if we ramp up the demand. I also suspect that at the end of the economic life of the building the wood will be either burned or left to rot thus releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere.
Engineered lumber will find more uses and code provisions imposing arbitrary limits will be modified but we will find that the world of the future will still not be built out of all wood.