Stadium
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Tokyo Olympic stadium will be built out of laminated lumber
The original plan for the National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were withdrawn in last July due to extreme high cost then there are two new proposals. The Ministers Conference selected plan A in late December. The new stadium has theme of ‘wood and green’ and the roof is hybrid structure with combination of steel and wood. The wood used is laminated lumber made of all domestic officially certified wood. Use of large amount of wood for the Olympic Stadium should trigger building of more wooden structures and common use of certified wood in Japan. The new plan includes traditional Japanese design. Structural laminated lumber of both cedar E65-F225 and larch E95-F270 are used for the roof. Materials are medium sized laminated lumber of 120x450 mm with length of less than 6 meters, which can be manufactured by any domestic laminated lumber plants. A total of 1,800 cbms... Continue reading
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March 2, 2017
Tokyo Olympic stadium will be built out of laminated lumber
The original plan for the National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were withdrawn in last July due to extreme high cost then there are two new proposals. The Ministers Conference selected plan A in late December. The new stadium has theme of ‘wood and green’ and the roof is hybrid structure with combination of steel and wood. The wood used is laminated lumber made of all domestic officially certified wood. Use of large amount of wood for the Olympic Stadium should trigger building of more wooden structures and common use of certified wood in Japan. The new plan includes traditional Japanese design. Structural laminated lumber of both cedar E65-F225 and larch E95-F270 are used for the roof. Materials are medium sized laminated lumber of 120x450 mm with length of less than 6 meters, which can be manufactured by any domestic laminated lumber plants. A total of 1,800 cbms... Continue reading
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Tokyo Olympic stadium will be built out of laminated lumber
The original plan for the National Stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were withdrawn in last July due to extreme high cost then there are two new proposals. The Ministers Conference selected plan A in late December. The new stadium has theme of ‘wood and green’ and the roof is hybrid structure with combination of steel and wood. The wood used is laminated lumber made of all domestic officially certified wood. Use of large amount of wood for the Olympic Stadium should trigger building of more wooden structures and common use of certified wood in Japan. The new plan includes traditional Japanese design. Structural laminated lumber of both cedar E65-F225 and larch E95-F270 are used for the roof. Materials are medium sized laminated lumber of 120x450 mm with length of less than 6 meters, which can be manufactured by any domestic laminated lumber plants. A total of 1,800 cbms... Continue reading