Sentences with phrase «tall wooden buildings»

The beams and panels in today's tall wooden buildings, however, are a far cry from natural wood.

«We're in sort of the early, early days of this,» says Michael Green, a Vancouver architect who has gained international attention for evangelizing about the potential for tall wooden buildings.

Although CLT has been around for a quarter - century, tall wooden buildings are only now taking off.

As fire storms swept through cities built chiefly of wood — San Francisco, California, in 1851 and 1906; Chicago, Illinois, in 1871; Boston in 1872 — insurers and officials discouraged tall wooden buildings in favor of less combustible material.

«Until these kinds of innovative products or design methods or construction methods are in the code, they're not likely to be widespread,» says Eric Karsh, a principal engineer at Equilibrium Consulting in Vancouver, who has worked on other tall wooden buildings.

In 2013, Green's 29 - meter - tall Wood Innovation and Design Centre in Prince George, Canada, earned bragging rights as what was then the tallest wooden building in North America.

At 30 stories, it promises to become the tallest wooden building in the world.

Way up at the top of Norway, in the land of the midnight sun and the northern lights, Reiulf Ramstad Architects is planning the world's tallest wooden building at 17 floors.

Not exact matches

A Japanese company is planning to build the world's tallest wooden skyscraper in Japan, with 90 percent of the building made of wooden materials.

The Vancouver building, assembled from composite wooden components engineered to be stronger and more fire - resistant than ordinary wood, is unlikely to remain the tallest wooden structure for long.

VIOLENCE / GORE 3 - A wooden brace breaks and the cable stretched between two very tall buildings lurches while a man stands on it; a helicopter swirls nearby and a voice over a loudspeaker orders the man on the cable to get down, the cable rumbles beneath his feet and he balances himself before making his way across to the roof where he is forced by police to lie down and he is handcuffed.

The outcome, a sparkling production which kept the audience enthralled throughout, and Big School, built in 1853, with its wooden panelling, tall beamed roof and leaded windows, set the mood effortlessly.

Did You Know: The Maine Maritime Museum located in Bath features a 120 - foot tall steel sculpture of the schooner Wyoming, which was the largest wooden sailing ship ever built in the U.S.

Built as three freestanding units with under tile and under carpet heating, the studios nestle among tall pine trees with dramatic views of the distant mountains from the wooden, covered decks.

The luxuriously appointed lounge has wooden parquet floor, high ceilings and tall panelled windows that reveal the stylish origins of this building.

I'm referring to the emerging use of wooden structures for larger and taller buildings, which is gaining momentum worldwide, especially in Austria and Sweden, but also in western North America.

They just keep getting warmer from baseline (one story wooden structure, no parking lot) to completed construction (surrounded by asphalt next to a tall brick building).

Your ladder is lovely... now if I can just get my husband to build one of those attached rolling wooden ladders in front of our 10 ft. tall bookcases we'll be set.