{"id":4787,"date":"2016-08-25T17:47:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2016-08-25T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T22:47:05","slug":"how-tall-can-we-go-with-wood-ctd-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/25\/how-tall-can-we-go-with-wood-ctd-6\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tall Can We Go With Wood?, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in October 2015 <\/a>I mentioned the University of British Columbia<\/strong><\/em> was building the tallest wood structure in the world. Treehugger.com <\/b><\/i>reports <\/a>the structure is finished – not meaning it’s ready for occupation, but the essentials are in place:<\/p>\n

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Image: Acton Ostry Architects<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

And of course TreeHugger loves it because wood is a renewable resource, and building with it sequesters carbon dioxide. In this building, according to Hermann Kaufmann<\/a>, “the carbon stored in the mass timber structure, plus avoided greenhouse gas emissions, results in a total estimated carbon benefit of 2,563 tonnes of CO2, which is equivalent to taking 490 cars off the road for a year.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Up and ahead of schedule. Gotta like that. They report the stairs are made of poured concrete – I wonder if the next ‘tall wood’ building will try to avoid that as well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in October 2015 I mentioned the University of British Columbia was building the tallest wood structure in the world. Treehugger.com reports the structure is finished – not meaning it’s ready for occupation, but the essentials are in place: And of course TreeHugger loves it because wood is a renewable \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-4787","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\/4787","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=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}