Forget the log cabin. Wood buildings are climbing skyward with pluses for the planet.
AMHERST, Mass. — Research assistant Conrado Araujo punches a key, mighty electromechanical motors surge, and a giant steel arm begins to bear down on a long wooden beam with thousands of pounds of pressure. In this airy lab on the ground floor of a four-story building made of similar beams, the crucial question is when the wood will break.
Araujo’s computer traces the load with a line that climbs along with the suspense.
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