Portland approves permit for 1st all-wood high-rise in US

Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation.

Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland’s trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to be completed by the following winter.

The decision by state and local authorities to allow construction comes after months of painstaking testing of the emerging technologies that will be used to build it, including a product called cross-laminated timber, or CLT.

Full Story: http://idahobusinessreview.com/2017/06/07/portland-approves-permit-for-1st-all-wood-high-rise-in-us/

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