Why Skyscrapers Should be Made of Wood

In the last decade, there’s been a movement towards using wood to build skyscrapers via cross laminated timber construction. Why is that? The biggest reasons behind this are environmental factors and structural integrity of wood. Plus, thanks to advancements in building cross laminated timber, it's become sturdier and more fire resistant and a high quality material to build. Even though it's more expensive than steel and concrete, it could be a great option for developers and leads to much quicker building times because wood construction allows for much more prefabrication. As population increases and urbanization is the future of building cities, wood buildings could be a game changer and lead to a future of wooden skyscrapers. What are your thoughts?

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[imkey]

It's very important to note that this is engineered wood product, not 100% lumber from tree. There is significant usage of glues and epoxies as binders. These binders and adhesives have their own issues in scaling up production. It is not accurate to state it is just trees which is the source material whereas a lot of additional binders are needed. The cost and environmental impact of these binders needs to be taken into consideration.

[InvestBetter.]

I'm all for it, if you can engineer around the traditional issues with tall wood structures:
Fire, termites and other insects, wood rot and sway

[alienamzal]

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[joestewart]

How tasty would termites find these buildings? I'm sure that carpenter bees would appreciate such luxurious digs, too.

[mpaulm]

My city, Edmonton, builds apartments out of wood that are four floors high. I’d be nervous about anything higher than that.

[CrizzyConnor]

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[josephtoman-xrqu]

I think Insulated concrete forms are the future, for Walls and floors 👍👍

[Rugopoly]

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[shanekeenaNYC]

My concern is about water, mold and rotting. Especially in low-lying coastal communities, I don't exactly trust the wood to hold up.

[herman]

7:19 It's actually called the Mjøs Tower. Because it's in the lake named Mjøsa. Tårnet is the Norwegian translation of tower.

[jmhowlett]

No multifamily building over 3 stories should be made of wood or composite material. All it takes is a fire between the ceilings and floors to disable the fire sprinkler system. Personally I believe concrete reinforced steel structures are the absolute best and safest ways to build a home and or a skyscraper. Of course places like New York, steel framed buildings are ok but in south Florida only steel reinforced concrete is the norm.

[M.Nazar.Writes]

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[calvinl]

Thanks for the video. I've seen a few other similar videos but it's always nice seeing different ones to get multiple perspectives. I think your video would honestly get more views if the thumbnail and title were more indicative of the topic being wood as a possible future for skyscraper construction. For example, check out the thumbnail and title for PBS News Hour videos - "Is mass timber the building material of the future" or cheddar's "wood skyscrapers are on the rise - cheddar explains".

[freemarkets]

Good video, however, I have some thoughts: (1) Skyscrapers are usually defined as being at least 100m or 150m tall, none of the finished buildings are this tall and therefore should be referred to as high rises instead. (2) If you need subsidies to build these, I don't think they will ever become that popular. Governments don't have the money to subsidize that many buildings and people are obviously preferring concrete buildings (for whatever reason), otherwise, no subsidies would be needed to encourage their construction. (3) Scandinavia, Austria or Wisconsin have lots of trees. The vast majority of people, however, live in places with minimal timber availability (China, India, Middle East). Those places will never see wooden buildings.

[Deair]

Can you make a video about Chicago please because Chicago started the skyscraper and has some of the most beautiful iconic skyscrapers with a Skyline that is unmatched

[ChrisPopkin]

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[houseofhas]

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[pharaoh]

I live in the Fort Lauderdale/Miami area of Florida. My concern would be flooding and wind damage from hurricanes. Also, our ever increasing heat

[cliffwoodbury]

One of the points your missing on also if you want to speak on carbon storage is that with the warming polar regions (warming faster than the equatorial regions) methane is being released into the atmosphere and scientist have stated that the arctic used to be grass land and grassland keeps methang in the ground better than trees because they cover all the ground and continually grow, ad scientist have said by returning the polar regions to grasslands would make for a healthier planet. there are probably 100'sof millions of not over a billion trees in the Taiga and by cutting most of them down if they can be converted to grassland at the same time there would be more than enough wood to build countless structures from wood while also helping our planet thrive. And with the opening of these places to the lumber industry there can be stipulations that they have to fix the coutles spaces they destroyed around teh world from strippping whole areas of all their trees, so they would be dong double good by replanting billions of tress in areas that should be forest and then cutting down billions to turn land that was once grasslands back into grasslands.

[kammore]

Um, didn’t we move away from using wood because entire cities were burning down? 🥴