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Originally Posted by mhays
Although most of my career has been in the concrete and steel construction world, I have to defend woodframes.
First of all, they're up to modern fire codes. Any significant fire seems to be the under-construction buildings without sprinklers or wall coverings. For completed-building fires I mostly hear about highrises.
Second, the engineering and standards have gotten a lot better. The building envelope stuff seems far better, with re-skins no longer that common. We know more about acoustics and they can be a lot quieter for moderate added cost. They deal with seismic zones just fine.
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i understand all of that, but i still don't like stick-frame for large scale buildings.
SFHs or small-scale multi-family, fine.
but once you're over 3 floors or a dozen or so units, i'd like to see a more permanent and robust structural system employed like masonry, concrete or steel.
but that apparently no longer pencils in our disposable throw-away society.