{"id":2604,"date":"2015-10-30T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2015-10-30T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:57:02","slug":"how-tall-can-we-go-with-wood-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/10\/30\/how-tall-can-we-go-with-wood-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tall Can We Go With Wood?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Alter @ Treehugger.com<\/b> <\/b><\/i>continues to beat the drum for tall wood buildings<\/a> as he reports <\/a>that the University of British Columbia is planning to build a new student residence to be 18 stories tall:<\/p>\n

No doubt the steel and concrete people will be out in force calling this a firetrap (thats what all the commenters are saying in the Vancouver Sun<\/a>) However it is not. The architects note that “The conservative approach used for the design of the project is equally as safe as that for high rise buildings using a concrete or steel structure. ”<\/p>\n

The building is comprised of a series of repetitive, highly compartmentalized small rooms so that in the event that a fire originates in one suite it is extremely likely the fire would be contained in the compartment in which it originated. To enhance compartmentalization, the typical one-hour fire separation required by the building code has been increased to two hours. Studies have shown that automatic sprinkler systems are effective in controlling over 90% of fire incidents. For this project an automatic sprinkler system with a back-up water supply offers additional protection for occupants, as well as for firefighters, for events that might originate during an earthquake, as the sprinkler system would remain operational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The architect, Acton Ostry Architects<\/strong><\/em>, gives a description<\/a>:<\/p>\n

53m tall mass timber structure comprised of two-way CLT floor slabs, glulam columns and steel connectors; concrete, gypsum board, prefab building envelope with metal cladding<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s a hybrid.\u00a0 Nothing wrong with that as more is learned about how to properly build tall wooden buildings.<\/p>\n

Makes me wonder about the construction of most new homes in Minnesota.\u00a0 Vinyl siding (which I detest, as it’s harder to paint than wood – which makes it harder to customize your house – and not particularly good for the environment<\/a>)?\u00a0 What else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lloyd Alter @ Treehugger.com continues to beat the drum for tall wood buildings as he reports that the University of British Columbia is planning to build a new student residence to be 18 stories tall: No doubt the steel and concrete people will be out in force calling this a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}