(05-20-2020, 06:51 AM)Spokes Wrote: Someone posted it a while back, but are there height limits with wood? (I'm sure there are, so maybe I'm just asking, WHAT are the height limits with wood?)
Not sure if you are asking about the limits here in Waterloo Region or Canada (I don't have an answer for that), but you can definitely go very high with wood. It's all down to how well engineered everything is. Tokyo has a 70 floor wooden skyscraper being planned and some architects in London (England) are researching the viability of an 80 floor building. There is a city (I forget which) in the United States that has a proposal for a 60 and 50 floor skyscraper. Of course, planning and research is different than actually building, but the fact they're doing so shows that it's certainly possible if it's done right.
Norway has built a very tall wooden building, substantially taller than the one in Vancouver. I think there was one that was completed in China a few months back that is a bit larger, but I don't know the name of it. https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/19/mjosta...er-norway/