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March 20, 2012 08:36 pm PDT
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Wooden skyscrapers: efficient, fire-safe, environmentally friendly(ier)
An architect named Michael Green believes he can make wooden skyscrapers that stand 100 storeys tall, and he's prototyping the idea with a 30-storey wooden building in Vancouver. More wooden high-rises are planned in Austria and Norway. Green uses laminated strand lumber, a glue/wood composite, and has char buffers to give it good safety in [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/IfJaXbT2jmk/wooden-skyscrapers-efficient.html
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