Portland has approved the construction of the nation’s first all-wood high rise building.
Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation. Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland’s trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to be completed by the following winter. The decision by state and local authorities to allow construction comes after months of painstaking testing of the emerging technologies that will be used to build it, including a product called cross-laminated timber, or CLT, the AP reports. To make CLT, lumber manufacturers align 2-by-4 boards in perpendicular layers and then glue them together like a giant sandwich before sliding the resulting panels into a massive press for drying.
The resulting panels are stronger than traditional wood because of the cross-hatched layers; CLT can withstand horizontal and vertical pressures similar to those from a significant earthquake with minimal damage. They are also lighter and easier to work with than regular timber, resulting in lower cost and less waste. State officials hope the building will stir greater interest in high-rise construction using mass timber and help revitalize the state’s lagging logging industry. “Projects like the Framework building present a new opportunity for Oregon that we are perfectly suited to take on,” Gov. Kate Brown said. “Oregon’s forests are a tried and true resource that may again be the key to economic stability for rural Oregon.”
Oh, dat’s gonna make a BIG bonfire. What could
possibly go wrong?
LOL.
I like big bonfires.
Burn, burn, redrum.
Will they make a skyscraper with match next?
Lol matchsticks
Of course the irony is these are the same clowns that leveled the forest industry and loggers with the spotted owl issue. Now they want to revitalize the industry as if they had nothing to do with the devastation of it. F’ing liberals
That’s not very “green”. Lincoln Logs from California Redwoods?
Then again, they laughed when reinforced concrete
(both tension and compression addressed by the steel reinforcing bars combined with concrete…which is made of cement, aggregate – small stones – sand and water)
came into practice as well.
Architecturally speaking, it could be an interesting new color on the structural palette…
Politically speaking, oh, f*ck, that’s Oregon for ya.
Holy smoke!!
The final touch, to make it waterproof, is to fully soak it all in paraffin. Hey, got a match?
Hope they ordered the 12+ story ladder trucks to rescue occupants cause there’s no way fireman are going inside with flames showing. Wood + glue = whoosh. Next they’ll say they can fireproof the wood for 30 or 60 minutes, but how much more weight does that add. Pretty soon we’re talking big timber, which if solid would last longer in a fire and provide more time to escape. Keep you rappel lines handy!
The Hindenburg of buildings
Termites! Just saying. 🙂
Bike Mike, the Spruce Goose of buildings.
“To make CLT, lumber manufacturers align 2-by-4 boards in perpendicular layers and then glue them together like a giant sandwich before sliding the resulting panels into a massive press for drying.
The resulting panels are stronger than traditional wood because of the cross-hatched layers”
Also known as “plywood”
“Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits ”
pretty vague reporting isn’t it ?
just who are these officials and what gives them this power to approve such new construction ?
what special knowledge do they possess that enables such bold decisions ?
is there no one to blame when something goes wrong ?
and you know anything the government does has unintended consequences.
And how many trees died for this?
“Oregon’s forests are a tried and true resource that may again be the key to economic stability for rural Oregon.”
What, is Trump going to make the EPA/USFS/BLM let you start harvesting the forest again?
What a shame that such a concentration of libturd in government & citizenry will prevent prosperity from ever happening.
Coming soon to Portland: the world’s first all-wood steel mill.
“just who are these officials and what gives them this power to approve such new construction ?”
They’re the guys with pizza face zits. Their voices are still cracking.
And how much taxpayer dollars are supporting this ‘new’ technology?
“The first all-wood high-rise buildings…” at 12 stories.
Don’t know how tall they were but early, industrial New York had lots of multi-story bldgs.
Today, what about all the chemicals in the woods — preservatives, flame retardants, glue, sealants,… Later determined to be dangerous to humans.
There’s a catch somewhere they don’t tell you about.
It gets nippy up there in the winter, right? So we’re going to heat up all 12 stories. So, guessing fireplaces are verboten.
oh what could possibly go wrong …a lot.
Have the construction workers and the legislature been tested for weed use? Oh, it’s legal?
Carry on. I’ll get the popcorn.
Never gonna happen. The fascists just blocked the “temporary” worker visas for all the Amish guys, whose unavailable expertise they need to put it up.
You know it rains quite a bit in Oregon. What about when (not if) it gets wet?
I know that they probably seal it and try to keep it protected, but shoddy worksmanship and flooding could impact the structural components.
Who, in their right mind, would want to be a tenant that firebox?
@Extirpates June 7, 2017 at 12:38 pm
“Who, in their right mind, would want to be a tenant that firebox?”
In Portland?
Plans have been announced in Hollywood for a new remake of the classic movie
The Towering Inferno. Shooting is scheduled to begin in Portland this fall.
Chicago once had most of its central city made of wood.
Portland figures keeping cows away will solve that problem.
We can only hope they get full occupancy!
Fire was not my first thought.
Earthquake and tsunami – it’s called the Cascadia subduction zone that runs for 700 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. A little shaking, then crack, then big beautiful building made of wood comes tumbling down. Then the tsunami hits and washes it all away.