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Appeal of Timber High Rises Widens
2013-09-23 22:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the Chicago-based firm that has designed a long list of skyscrapers, including the new One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, has developed a structural system that uses so-called mass timber - columns and thick slabs that are laminated from smaller pieces of wood. In a report this year, the firm showed how the system could be used to build a 42-story residential tower that would have a lower carbon footprint than a conventional structure. "We're tall building engineers,"...
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