This is an interesting idea
Core with concrete slabs every third floor. Timber prefab infill between the concrete allows for adaptability over time.
By TEN studio (link here: https://t.co/UjO8rSFzCY)
Counterintuitive how timber & mostly timber bldgs are -veCO2
Here’s how plants/trees pull apart CO2,
1.8tn of CO2 ceasing to exist to make 1tn of timber
2xOxygen atoms released & 1xCarbon locked-in for life of timber component
Cut Timber= -1,023KgCO2e/m3
CLT= -841KgCO2e/m3
Using two telescopes and over 280,000 individual photos, I captured my most detailed image of our moon. The full size is over a gigapixel. Trust me, you’ll want to zoom in on this one.
#Retrofit : interesting letter here by @UCDArch colleague Paul Arnold highlighting the demise of the independent Building Regulations Advisory Board.
https://t.co/ITBHTIT1iu
In Waterford this morning with Sen. John Cummins to turn the sod on the new Bunmahon Coast Guard Station 🛟 The €5.3m project will support this @IrishCoastGuard unit to continue providing their lifesaving services for many years ahead
@Dept_Transport@opwireland @podonovan
@CiaraBreath @radiokerry I don't know if this is at all helpful but What Three Words can locate anyone anywhere in the world (including mountains!) to within 3 metres. If she can open the website on her phone and share her three words with rescuers, they can pinpoint her exactly. https://t.co/xeHfzqjIt6
@jkiggins@UOW similarly, The great pyramid of Giza actually has 8 sides. Only at sunrise and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes is this visible. Oh, and you have to be up in the air.
@jkiggins@UOW Slices were cut into the seat at an angle of 34°, the angle of the sun around Wollongong, NSW on the winter solstice, creating a striped shadow pattern on the ground. Holes were cut at 79°, the angle of the sun on the summer solstice, creating polka-dot shadows.