As of October, the world's tallest wood building can be found at the University of Northern British Columbia, in the city of Prince George. The eight-story, 96-foot-tall Wood Innovation and Design Centre, designed by Michael Green Architecture, in Vancouver, contains 51,000 square feet of office and educational space. Mass timber construction, which employs prefabricated wood components such as cross-laminated timber (CLT), is strong enough to support the building's post-and-beam structure and lateral-load resisting system; it also has a long life cycle. Glulam beams, which vary in size based on their location, transfer the structural loads to glulam columns, which are 14 inches by 14% inches on the ground floor and 12 inches by 14~(1/2) inches on the upper floors. This superstructure is secured by 2-millimeter to 16-millimeter glued-in rods and stainless steel washer plates that use a proprietary aluminum dove-tail connector. Structurlam and Brisco Wood Preservers supplied the mass timber products, made of British Columbian spruce pine fir.
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