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Towards Timber Mid-Rise Buildings in Chile: Structural Design Challenge and Regulations Gaps

https://research.thinkwood.com/en/permalink/catalogue1634
Year of Publication
2016
Topic
Design and Systems
Market and Adoption
Material
Light Frame (Lumber+Panels)
Application
Wood Building Systems
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Author
Santa María, Hernán
Caicedo, Natalia
Montaño, Jairo
Luis Almazán, José
Year of Publication
2016
Country of Publication
Austria
Format
Conference Paper
Material
Light Frame (Lumber+Panels)
Application
Wood Building Systems
Topic
Design and Systems
Market and Adoption
Keywords
Chile
Mid-Rise
Platform Buildings
Building Codes
Language
English
Conference
World Conference on Timber Engineering
Research Status
Complete
Notes
August 22-25, 2016, Vienna, Austria p. 2995-3002
Summary
At present in Chile it is not possible to construct buildings higher than 3 storeys using timber as structural material. This difficulty is due to high demands of regulations, in addition to cultural reasons, even though there are buildings in timber with more than 5 storeys built in 1910...
Online Access
Free
Resource Link
http://repositum.tuwien.ac.at/obvutwoa/content/pageview/1649009
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