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Edificios y rascacielos en madera, ¿una alternativa para construir con menos CO2?

Nov 27, 2024 | elespectador.com | Kurt Kleiner

En 2022 había 84 edificios de madera en masa de ocho pisos o más construidos o en construcción en todo el mundo, y otros 55 propuestos. Audio generado con IA de GoogleEn la Universidad de Toronto, justo enfrente del estadio de fútbol, trabajadores están construyendo un edificio de 14 pisos con espacio para aulas y despachos para profesores. Lo inusual es cómo lo están construyendo: atornillando vigas, columnas y paneles gigantes hechos de planchas de madera fabricada.
Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers » Yale Climate Connections

Nov 7, 2024 | yaleclimateconnections.org | Kurt Kleiner |Sara Peach

As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall crane lifts it into place and holds it in position while workers attach it with metal connectors. In its half-finished state, the building resembles flat-pack furniture in the process of being assembled. The tower uses a new technology called mass timber. In this kind of construction, massive, manufactured wood elements that can extend more than half the length of a football field replace steel beams and concrete.
Sustainable Building Effort Reaches New Heights with Wooden Skyscrapers

Nov 7, 2024 | daily.jstor.org | Kurt Kleiner |Daniel Safarik |William R. Miranda |Jacob Elbrecht

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a fourteen-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re building it—by bolting together giant beams, columns and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood.
Sustainable Building Effort Reaches New Heights with Wooden Skyscrapers

Oct 15, 2024 | thewire.in | Kurt Kleiner
Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

Oct 15, 2024 | technewstube.com | Kurt Kleiner

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Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

Oct 15, 2024 | arstechnica.com | Kurt Kleiner

Wood offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete. At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns, and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood.
Is This Sustainable, Entirely Wood Skyscraper the Future of Cities?

Oct 15, 2024 | msn.com | Kurt Kleiner

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Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

Oct 12, 2024 | popsci.com | Kurt Kleiner

High-rise buildings made of mass timber are appearing in skylines around the world, including, from left, the Ascent skyscraper in Milwaukee, and others in Skellefteå, Sweden; Brumunddal, Norway; Vienna; and Vancouver, Canada.
Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers

Oct 10, 2024 | treefrogcreative.ca | Kurt Kleiner |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar |David Elstone

Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers By Kurt Kleiner Knowable Magazine October 8, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, United States At the University of Toronto, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices.
Why wooden skyscrapers are popping up in skylines around the world

Oct 9, 2024 | zmescience.com | Kurt Kleiner

At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood. As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall crane lifts it into place and holds it in position while workers attach it with metal connectors.