Governments can help nudge the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector—the construction industry’s biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are embodied in materials. This would favour wood as well as innovative ways of producing other materials. — The Economist
The Economist compares the environmental impact of the industrialized world's most common building materials, cement and steel, with that of carbon-trapping wood, and how an earnest effort to reach the emission goals outlined in the Paris Climate Agreement cannot ignore building with timber on a much, much grander scale.
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Architects have been preaching wood for the last 50 years. Now the bureaucrats are into it in a superficial way. Ok let’s get to the details
Construction is underway for Atlanta's first large scale heavy timber building. Has been cool to see it go up. Although it's getting wrapped in metal when it's done, sigh.
Da Vinci Apartment building, made of wood, that was under construction at the time of the blaze. No one injured.
Not sure about your point? Fires happen in Type 1A buildings, too. That's why codes exist.
I think this project came up here before, but the University of Idaho is set to break ground on a Heavy Timber Basketball Arena this spring. If I'm not mistaken, it'll be the first one in the US, if not the world. Idaho has a bit of a history with wood construction in its sporting venues with the barrel vault roof of their football stadium being a wooden truss-joist of sorts. University of Idaho Arena
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