Wooden skyscrapers! They're a good idea. Really.
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July 9, 2013
Today's TED Talk
Michael Green: Why we should build wooden
skyscrapers
12:22 minutes · Filmed Feb 2013 · Posted Jul 2013
· TED2013
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and
concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of … wood. As he
details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden
structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary.
Michael Green wants to solve architecture's
biggest challenge -- meeting worldwide housing demand without increasing carbon
emissions -- by building with carbon-sequestering wood instead of concrete and
steel.
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