Sweden is Building the World's Largest City Made Entirely From Timber
time.com
Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.
    • morbidcactus@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      I thought that too when they started doing wooden condos in some areas of Canada, but it’s an engineered product (cross-laminated timber), not just plain wood. Apparently it’s super dense and chars instead of burning outright, some tests had them self extinguishing from this abstract (using a specific adhesive)

      Edit: Found a full paper that might be interesting

      • kamenLady.@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 days ago

        Interesting

        After the compartment had cooled down, it was visually inspected. A few cracks at the surface of the gypsum boards were seen, but all of them remained in place. The inner gypsum board layer was undamaged except for some discolouring under the joints of the outer layer. The protected CLT back wall was undamaged.