“Wood is one of nature’s most innovative building materials,” writes Becky Quintal for ArchDaily. “The production has no waste products and it binds CO2. Wood has low weight,” she notes, but it also offers “a very strong load-bearing structure compared to its lightness.” Fire is still a problem, but not as much as one might imagine, as wood actually performs well under heat stress. It can be “more fire resistant than both steel and concrete,” notes Quintal, in part because wood contains water, the evaporation of which can delay a blaze. In a fire, wood chars on the outside, which protects the
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