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Timber Industry Responses to Concrete on Building Code Issues

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No timber towers happening in America as concrete industry blocks tall wood from International Building Code is the headline from a recent posting from the Web site Treehugger. "It's easy to scare people off wood construction; just show pictures of January's fire in New Jersey. However there is lightweight framing out of dimension lumber, which was what the Edgewater apartments were, and there is heavy timber and Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) which is a whole different thing. Heavy timber is oversized so that in a fire it will char, which essentially fireproofs it."

Source: A May 8 posting on the Web site Treehugger. Read more and note the extensive comments section.
 

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