What does Sup Forums think of the new wooden tower trend? An 18-story wooden dormitory was just built in the communist nation of British Columbia and enviro-fags are pushing for taller and taller wooden buildings because they are more "sustainable" than steel and concrete.
Nobody said it wasn’t, brainlet, we’re talking about using wood to build skyscrapers.
William Carter
Christ.
I work as an electrician on building sites. While this might be aesthetically pleasing it's a terrible idea and I would not want to be involved with construction.
Then again people pay 2.6 million for the horrific, ugly units we are building in Australia. Maybe people are just Dumbo.
Gavin Watson
I grew up doing occasional logging with my father so I approve. As long as it's sound engineering wise I don't see the problem.
Henry Morales
is that what we're talking about? need two people for a discussion, and i don't see anyone talking about the first yet, manlet
Jose Phillips
>not just genetically engineering trees to grow into buildings with large open pockets, self healing membrane "windows" and stairways suitable for humans
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Ryan Russell
doesn't wood burn really well unless you pump it full with carcinogenic chemicals to make it "fire proof" and then you're worse off than living in a clean steel/concrete building?
Wyatt Turner
> Today, on a site along the Chicago River, architects are exploring a new kind of high-rise structure built entirely from timber. The River Beech Tower is a spindly, beechwood building whose 80 stories cut a blonde silhouette against Chicago’s dark, glassy horizon.
Allahu Akbar! Absolutely halal. Yes do this Western pigs.
Evan Long
buildings in general are very susceptible to dumping lighter fluid on the carpeting inside and then lighting a match, but you don't always need to plan so that the failure condition occurs when designing something
Kayden Foster
noice 3/5 would abide
Zachary Scott
Getting triggered by people building wood houses.
Eli Johnson
How do they keep it from swaying until you puke? Even if it was structurally sound I feel like it would sway a ton in the wind just like the tops of trees.
Oliver Flores
I live in a wood house. It's 3 stories like god intended, not 30 stories like these satanic structures being proposed.
Joseph Torres
Hah, they built a dormitory as the first one because only students are poor enough to not have a choice in the matter.
Liam Rodriguez
>How do they keep it from swaying steel and concrete buildings already sway >I feel like it would sway a ton in the wind just like the tops of trees now you're just retarded
Asher Diaz
Wood houses are fine, just about everyone in America who has a house has a wooden one. This is completely different.
Tyler Thompson
Wood houses are trash in every conceivable way.
Concrete is infinitely more durable and comfy. Stays cooler in summer, stays warmer in winter, no constant fucking creaking as the house shifts at night due to temperature changes, sound proofing between walls, I could go on but you get the point.
Bentley Fisher
enjoy your concrete house
Gabriel Evans
i know you want to be nationalist over everything and automatically assume you have the best of everything because of where you were born, but seriously, stop
concrete is not a better insulator, it is not going to stay warmer in winter
Nathaniel Robinson
This. I am envious of people with houses like this. If I could build a house from scratch, it'd have no organic material: no wood, no paper. Nothing to rot.
Bentley Evans
>no constant fucking creaking as the house shifts at night due to temperature changes where is this house located at that this happens? i live in the midwest, which has pretty decent temperature swings and I've never heard my house creak (it's about 40 years old)
Isaac Taylor
Nobody gets the point because it's not feasible or how concretworks
Isaac Price
My wooden house is 100 years old, I get 30 degree temp swings at night, rarely creaks at all.
And no concrete houses are NOT warmer in the winter. My parents-in-law have one, it loses heat much faster than my wooden house.
Jonathan Brown
Can jet fuel melt wood beams?
Tyler Green
Central Canada and I'm listening to mine creak and shift as I write this
Bentley Hill
wood has its place, it's just those particle board monstrosities which should all burn down.
Ryan Bailey
>north american houses are literally built out of matchsticks and paper mache I remember watching a video where some American needs to run cable into his house. His solution? Just measure and drill straight through the wall and out the drywall on the other side.
Camden Scott
what would you do with concrete?
Aiden Thompson
wooden or concrete.. if you have shit insulation and shit windows your house will lose heat ridiculously fast
While I don't mind building good wooden houses, I don't care about them being wooden.
Just build a good, beautiful low energy house that will last 100+ years with some renovations every 25 years or so.
Josiah Lopez
>Stays warmer in the winter Confirmed to have never lived outside a tropical paradise. Enjoy spending a fortune heating the place once winter hits.
Noah Jackson
Do they not know where that wood comes from?
Isaac Jackson
I live in China and the buildings are all amde with concrete they don't stay cool in the summer, they don't say warm in the winter, I can hear people a floor above and one unit to the right of me open and close doors you're full of shit
Liam Sullivan
Why don't we build skyscrapers out of bismuth?
Julian Walker
What's the problem here? If the house was made of brick or concrete he would have drilled straight throw it too.
John Wilson
>And no concrete houses are NOT warmer in the winter. It's mostly the modern insulation and insulated windows that matter.
You can use concrete or wood just fine, but they're not the main insulating thing in a modern or renovated house.
Ethan Gutierrez
its actually not a paradox if you knew where construction lumber comes from. its not the amazon jungles.
Sebastian Peterson
Softwood is a renewable resource, imbecile. Canada has a huge industry.
Elijah Baker
Trees can be replanted. Cut a tree down, gather the seeds/reproductive thing, plant several new trees from the one you cut down, rinse and repeat. Sustainable.
Iron does not grow on its own so when it's all used up it's gone. Proper recycling will help alleviate this problem. It's also possible iron can be created through neutron bombardment of heavier atoms and nuclear decay though it's not possible to do this on a scale viable for mass production currently and there's probably not enough of the source element to every make this feasible anyway. If you wanna get technical iron is sort of renewable as some iron does come from meteorites but it constitutes trace amounts over a human life scale and is therefore negligible.
Concrete isn't renewable either but there's so much fucking rock on Earth that we probably can't realistically use it all so it's not really worth considering it a non-renewable resources. .
Hunter Stewart
I've been in wooden Chalets from the 18th century and they didn't creak in stormy wind. I think there were old creaky floor boards somewhere, but that'd have been easy to fix.
Ryder Taylor
>Iron does not grow on its own so when it's all used up it's gone user, earth is about 35% iron. We probably can't ever make as much trees by mass.
It also generally won't escape earth and we can only "use" so much, most of it can be reclaimed in one or another way.
Charles Cruz
>using wood >first world
lol meikunts please kys
Dominic Jenkins
Most of Western Australia and a large part of Brazil is made of iron ore. We're not running out for a while yet. Also, iron is recyclable. Always has been. Part of the iron production process depends on a supply of scrap iron.
Thomas Roberts
Most of that iron is molten and is in the core of the planet. The easily accessible iron represents only a small portion of the total iron on Earth. Also even if we developed the technology to be able to gather iron from the core we probably shoudln't at the risk of fucking up the Earth's magnetic field so just assume that all the iron down there should stay down there if we all want to live.
Luke Baker
>Also, iron is recyclable. what about muh carbon footprint?
Landon Martinez
what sovereign nation do you reside?
Jace Cruz
drill. then be fucked when hitting a rebar. it's like I have an uncanny talent to hit those fuckers and destroy expensive drills.
Anthony Smith
and then it rains and falls apart
great fucking idea
Oliver Fisher
>Me personally? Hell no I'm not living in a giant swaying tinderbox you're already living in a swaying fuel soaked tinderbox
John Walker
>CTRL+F >Housefires: 0/0 matches
You're getting lazy Sup Forums
Jacob Scott
Based Macedonia is reporting in.
Ian Kelly
I'm glad only brown people died there.
Jonathan Sanders
very nice
Lincoln Turner
>Implying every building designed in the past 15 years doesn't use the same cheap chinkshit cladding because the architect thinks it looks aesthetic and the builder is worried about his shekles
Bentley Butler
Iron is all over the upper layers of earth, too.
And long before we could extract enough to mess with the magnetic field of earth, tying up a similar mass in wood would surely fuck with the other plant life on earth.
Carson Smith
Sound proofing? With concrete? What the fuck mate, you couldn't be any wronger.
Levi Parker
That would actually be pretty cool. Elf LARP life when?
Alexander Martin
Don't know about concrete but bricks are fucking horrible. I'm so tired of stupid dogs barking 2 floors below me at 5 a.m. And you wouldn't even figure out if they are actually below or above you, I just know it. Limestone is the best.
Hudson Robinson
depends on the bricks. these pearlite-filled bricks are dead quiet.
Nolan Parker
>you were born too early >you will never be an elf
Liam Scott
That includes you too.
Parker Nguyen
Lol, Same!
Eli Rivera
>concrete and steel are easily recycled >wood either rots or turns into paper it's decent for single-family homes but large buildings should be built out of steel and concrete
Christopher Hall
>I live in China
>he thinks that's real concrete he's living in
lmao
Juan Peterson
>but wood rots >enjoy your matchstick house
If you actually read the article you'd know that they arent using 2x4's to build these. They're using engineered timbers like CLT, glulam parralel strand lumber. These are much stronger than normal timber, can be made into large beams and columns and are much more fire resistant than you might think. They char at a constant rate instead of just going up and don't loose strength while doing so, unlike steel. As for the rotting, the structure isn't exposed to the elements, there will be damp proof membranes and cladding protecting them from the elements.
Alexander James
>matchsticks wrapped in plastic bags
David Sanders
>Brits rave about their strong stone buildings >Cover it in extremely flammable cladding >Tell all residents to stay in place rather than leave a burning building
Ethan White
>Sup Forums knowing anything about construction Modern wood construction is very different from traditional practices. They've figured out ways to greatly strengthen the beams using various techniques like cross-lamination. They also satisfy fire codes as well as any other material with proper treatment. Wood is also cheaper and better for the environment than concrete/steel structures while also being much lighter, they have wood designs pushing 40 stories now. It's just a matter waiting for regulation to catch up and you will see wood structures popping up everywhere.
Christopher Mitchell
>living in a house that's 20% glue by weight
Brayden Baker
4 years later dad told me to build wooden outhouse for bricklayers crew. Chainsaw, hammer, nails, meter, marker and 5h later my first outhouse was completed. Survived like 2 100km + storms so far. Btw I build it from my head.
Bentley Lee
>4 years later Engrish am I right. I'm so fucking retarded.
Zachary Parker
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Julian Brown
All I can think is: TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES TERMITES
Gabriel Mitchell
yeah going to go the sterilization route rather than purge route
Ryan Lopez
>doesn't wood burn really well unless you pump it full with carcinogenic chemicals to make it "fire proof"
nope
Chase Watson
holy fuck that's more A E S T H E T I C than anything here in America at least we aren't nordic housing where EVERYTHING LOOKS FUCKING THE SAME
Lucas Evans
> just about everyone in America who has a house has a wooden one.
These are cardboard houses with a thin wooden frame and everybody knows they are shit
>This is completely different.
Exactly, like 100000 times better quality than your usual overpriced cardboard boxes
Joshua Reed
>he doesn't want to live in a building of pure steel with a thin gold layer on top of it bet you don't even emperor
Leo Gutierrez
>mfw americans keep building their houses out of wood when they live in hurricane and flood territories
Luke Smith
You keep pointing out your geology textbook but somehow missed the point completely in all 3 replies
Ian Williams
I guarantee that's an iron structure with some Home Depot panels on it
Jackson Gray
>ctrl+f >no earthquake
Wood is superior to steel and whatnot. A reinforced core, reinforced concrete basements and whatnot are not in discussion for taller buildings. Wood will provide a better thermal insulation albeit it may come with a poorer sound insulation. No, it won't catch fire.
Alexander Cook
>>Sup Forums knowing anything about construction
This actually. I don't understand how people who obviously know nothing about the topic can be so opinionated.
Ayden Gonzalez
Those can only do so much. I’ve been to the top of skyscrapers with them and you can still feel the sway.
Kevin Brooks
>macedonia
So a fake country?
Brandon Gutierrez
>user, earth is about 35% iron
To bad it doesn't grow out of the ground on its own, lel
Aiden Jones
>I don't understand how people who obviously know nothing about the topic can be so opinionated. You don't get out much, do you?
Jose Walker
No. Also I don't expect to meet the same idiots I'd meet outside on chans.
Adrian Parker
>No, it won't catch fire. citation needed
Asher Rodriguez
They ought to burn really well. Enjoy your fiery death trap.
Elijah Miller
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Camden Cook
Yeah I'd live in one for a couple semesters to try it out
Anthony Howard
Been to Skoplje it's a fucking circus, what the Fuck were you guys thinking with all those gaudy monuments and buildings.
Austin Hall
enjoy your termites and other pests, i'm fine here in my conrete box.
Carson Stewart
Buy a decent hammer drill and proper SDS bits then