Seismic resistance has more to do with shear walls and tie downs than engineered lumber. We do use it frequently though due to its strength.

SCL is good for certain applications, not for others. The real breakthrough for multi-story wood construction wasn't SCL (although it helps), but experimentation with tie-down systems and shear walls. Tall buildings are subject to overturning and racking, which requires shear walls and continuous tie-down rods.

The real use of SCL is that its stronger than normal wood, and is cheaper than steel or reinforced concrete for certain applications.

Because then a 1200 sqft house would cost $2 million.

It's the same idea as plywood or OSB, just formed into beams instead of sheets.

They do make exterior use Structural Composite Lumber (SCL) than can be used in wet conditions. Generally, though, SCL is not rated for wet use. It depends on the product.

Probably a good thing for the concrete jungles of NY that they get eaten up

Honestly, floor trusses are still the best option when you can use them. They use less material, are cheaper, and use solid sawn lumber. They also have room for mechanical chases.

Engineered lumber (Structural Composite Lumber or SCL) is stronger and stiffer than normal lumber; however it's also more expensive than trusses. Typically, we prefer to use trusses unless the strength of the SCL is needed.

The main advantage is that SCL can be more cheaply produced in deep sections (16-24 inches deep) and in long spans (up to 48 feet) than solid seen lumber. It is also straight and uniform. It allows us to avoid more expensive materials (steel, concrete).

Ah yes, devastating a country and killing civilians but then doing something like this, I now love Russia. /s

That's like a textbook Russians play at this point.

This is sort of out of the blue, but I feel like the color schemes of our snoo avatars are polar opposites of each other lol. Blue robot head black suit, red robot head white suit. I dunno, just thought that was neat.

Seems like other half of that is encouraging russians to move into neighboring countries, then accuse their neighbor of mistreating those people as a pretext invade. This has happened a lot of time in the past.

Not in New York.

Since when is presenting facts naysaying? Just because you don't understand the facts doesn't mean they disappear.

The synthetic wood manufacturing requires high amounts of heat, impractical to deliver through electricity. The transmission lines would have to be enormous, not to mention actually generating enough of it. The more efficient and practical way to use renewables would be to use concentrated solar thermal, but that's still under development for industrial use. Fusion sounds great in theory too. Question is will it be economically viable.

I am curious where you read that it's to replace concrete. The treated wood still contains cellulose which is vulnerable to water. Most concrete applications are exposed to water.

This still isn't even close to a solution. When any wood breaks down (burns, decays, etc), including this wood, it will still release its stored CO2 into the atmosphere. All this will accomplish is increase the time it will take for CO2 to enter the atmosphere; the same total amount will still reach the atmosphere eventually.

Because they're literally commiting textbook genocide.

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Nearly everything Russia has done to Ukraine has been serious attempts to commit genocide. Taking the children of a people is a literal textbook piece (a pillar, if you will) of genocide.

Typical Russian stuff, just ask their neighbors who have had to deal with Russia's bullshit for centuries.

There's only one uplifting that those Russian troops kidnapping children should be involved in and it has to do with them at the end of a rope

Likely they're letting a petty few get back to add to legitimacy that russia is following some sort of official process. As usual it's just a veneer of integrity over a swamp of bullshit.

Still, you gotta get the kids back, so they do it.

Comes in a tub

"I can''t believe it's not wood"

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hadn't thought of this, but excellent point

Am I misunderstanding? Isn't this stuff made out of real wood?

That vaccine has been around awhile. Am I right?

What I don't get is why rich people think it's cool to ride around on horses whacking balls, but African kids can't??