Why Your City`s Next High-Rise Could Be Made Of Wood


Why Your City`s Next High-Rise Could Be Made Of Wood


As steel, concrete and glass came to dominate cities’ dense cores, wooden construction was largely relegated to single-family houses in the suburbs. But a push for sustainable and aesthetically pleasing construction materials — and some well-timed updates to building codes — could bring wooden construction back downtown.

Buildings constructed with wood were long constrained to a few floors, but in December, the International Code Council voted to ease restrictions on height, allowing construction up to 18 stories with mass timber, an engineered material made of wooden planks bonded and pressed together into immensely strong and lightweight beams....

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RSK: Love the concept but see the irony in it. It costs less because of time savings and less concrete and then, owners turn around and charge more for rent and because of the aesthetics, you fill your building up sooner.

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