RR-0201: Using Wood Efficiently: From Optimizing Design to Minimizing the Dumpster
Americans have been building homes with wood—shaping logs, joining timbers, nailing studs—for almost 400 years. Our current approach, stick framing, grew poplular in the mid-1800's because it too less skill, required simpler tools, and took fewer people than timber framing. We apparently really like waste haulers, too.
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Building Science Corporation
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2008/10/16
