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World's Tallest Wooden Skyscraper Planned in Tokyo
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| Holly Ellyatt
Posted on 02/20/2018 5:21:18 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Wood is a green, renewable resource.
Until it burns.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:22:36 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:23:29 PM PST
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: ClearCase_guy
“Until it burns.”
That’s renewing it!
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:24:48 PM PST
by
CodeToad
(Dr. Spock was an idiot!great wife today.)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Fire trap. An arsonist dream.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:26:27 PM PST
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: nickcarraway
You call the people in this building "the dead" after the earthquake or the fire. Or the earthquake and the fire.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:27:57 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: nickcarraway
"Using 185,000 cubic meters of timber, the building is expected to cost around 600 billion Japanese yen ($5.6 billion) which is twice the amount of a conventional high-rise building constructed with current technology."
DOUBLE the cost just so you can say you built with wood??? Yeah, that is rational.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:29:06 PM PST
by
Enchante
(FusionGPS "dirty dossier" scandal links Hillary, FBI, CIA, Dept of Justice... "Deep State" is real)
To: nickcarraway
So they sell their lumber in cubic meters instead of board feet?
Or will it all be particle and wafer board?
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:30:19 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: nickcarraway
Godzilla will make short work of that.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:35:46 PM PST
by
kanawa
(Trump Loves a Great Deal)
To: righttackle44
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:36:09 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
To: Enchante
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:36:22 PM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(The revolution will not be televised (at least, not by CNN).)
To: ClearCase_guy
Amazing. “Those guys are really smart. I’m surprised they lost the war.” Pete Rose.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:38:05 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: nickcarraway
The jokes just write themselves.
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:38:07 PM PST
by
napscoordinator
(Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Hey Pete: The REALLY smart guys live in Switzerland, which has not lost a war since the Middle Ages ...
... and they don’t bet on base-ball either ...
:>)
To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
What could possibly go wrong?
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:41:59 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: nickcarraway
As a structural drafter for the last 31 years, I can say this is one of the craziest ideas I have ever heard.... ESPECIALLY there with the earthquakes they have. Highest I have done in wood, is 4 story wood hotels, think they were Comfort suites etc... I am not an engineer, but the problem with wood I think becomes the width to height ratio that kills the shear designs. Wind governs design here in Arizona, but pretty sure Seismic will there. The stuff I did in San Francisco years ago, out of concrete and only 24 stories high for the towers, were insanely reinforced. Barely enough room left to get concrete in after all the steel was in there. I have already sent this article on to a few different engineers I have worked with over the years to ask their opinions on it... Just seems insane to me!
To: nickcarraway
“...the planned structure will be a hybrid of mostly wood and steel.”
That statement made me lose all interest...
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posted on
02/20/2018 5:49:07 PM PST
by
Enduro Guy
(Always cov fe'fe)
To: Deaf Smith
I would guess it will be mostly manufactured lumber, like glu-lam beams etc. We use material known as micro lam which is for laminated studs when they get real tall and floor joists etc. in high stress areas when solid sawn lumber wont work and to keep depths down when architectural design dictates.
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