Sentences with phrase «by tall timber»

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For going tall with wood, «CLT was kind of the trigger,» says Erol Karacabeyli, a veteran engineer at a Vancouver lab of FPInnovations, a nonprofit created by the Canadian government and the timber industry to find new ways to use wood.

In the current tests of the two - story, 22 - foot - tall structure, the researchers are studying the behavior of full - scale seismic safety systems made from advanced wood materials — including rocking walls, which can rock during a temblor and then re-center back by itself, and a mass timber floor designed to withstand strong earthquakes.

The dining area is «separated» from the corner living room by a tall pedestal, upon which sits Ken Price's ceramic «Slope» sculpture and one of the loft's original timber beams, which is framed by Bruno Rainaldi's soaring Sapien bookshelves, teeming with colorful art tomes and catalogs.

In fact the very first tall timber tower, designed by Waugh Thistleton a decade ago, was assembled in nine weeks by four workers.