Construction of Tasmania's first timber high-rise building capturing industry attention

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• fivemmvegemite@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bendigo’s GovHub was another with this sort of construction technique. Interestingly Fairbrother had a lot to do with that as well.

  www.development.vic.gov.au/…/bendigo-govhub

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• trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Surprised they managed to find any timber left in Tasmania that hasn’t already been pulped and sold for next to nothing.

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• Moc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is great news. Fire treated timber is a cheap and excellent building material. In the United States, they make mixed use five-floor buildings out of them with large apartments.

  Seems like a good potential option for increasing housing density, cheaply.

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• surreptitiouswalk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Extra speed of build is a pretty good draw card even if it is 30% more expensive, and just diversifying the range of materials available for building high rises is always good for the industry. It’ll be interesting to see where it ends up!

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