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4A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2017 Timber: Company has been inundated with interested visitors Continued from Page 1A That’s because Redfield and his son work at D.R. Johnson Lumber Co., one of two U.S. timber mills mak- ing a new wood product that’s the buzz of the construction industry. It’s called cross-lam- inated timber, or CLT, and it’s made like it sounds: rafts of 2-by-4 beams aligned in per- pendicular layers, then glued — or laminated — together like a giant sandwich. The resulting panels are lighter and less energy-inten- sive than concrete and steel and much faster to assem- ble on-site than regular tim- ber, proponents say. Because the grain in each layer is at a right angle to the one below and above it, there’s a count- er-tension built into the pan- els that supporters say makes them strong enough to build even the tallest skyscrapers. “We believe that two to five years out, down the road, we could be seeing this grow from just 20 percent of our business to potentially 60 percent of our business,” said Redfield, D.R. John- son’s chief operating officer. “We’re seeing some major growth factors.” using $1.5 million it won in a tall wood building com- petition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agricul- ture and the softwood indus- try that’s intended to promote CLT as a domestic building material. A 10-story residen- tial tower in New York City also got $1.5 million. The Portland firm has been working with scientists at Portland State University and Oregon State University to test the panels’ strength by subjecting them to hundreds of thousands of pounds of pressure. They are also testing various methods for joining the massive panels together. “We’re looking at cre- ating a resilient design, a design that could withstand a major earthquake — basi- cally the earthquake that we all worry about — and be repaired,” said Thomas Robinson, founder of Lever Architecture. The results of the struc- tural testing in Oregon will be made public for other U.S. designers, bringing the mate- rial one step closer to the mainstream, Dusicka said. Back in Riddle, a tiny town tucked in the mist-shrouded forests of Douglas County, Redfield is once more excited about timber in a place where logging used to be king. The 125-employee com- pany has been inundated with visitors from around country interested in touring their new CLT business expansion. Watching as layers of beams whirred through a glue machine, Redfield said: “We’re able to take wood that may be turned into chips or pulp and turn it into a product that’s pretty exciting.” Lever Architecture head- quarters is a four-story all- wood building built using cross-laminated timber, or CLT, in Portland. CLT is made up of 2-by-4 beams laid out in perpendicular layers that are then glued together to make giant panels. AP Photo Don Ryan Gas Reward Points * on Sparking interest From Maine to Arkansas to the Pacific Northwest, the material is sparking interest among architects, engineers and researchers. Many say it could infuse struggling forest communities like Riddle with new economic growth while reducing the carbon footprint of urban construction with a renewable building material. Visually blemished wood that currently goes to waste can be used in the middle layers of a CLT panel with- out sacrificing strength or look. Supporters say it could bring sawmills back online while improving forest health through thinning dense stands and making use of low-value wood and local tree species. Trees as small as 5 inches in diameter at the top and those damaged by pests and wild- fire are prime candidates. But challenges remain before CLT becomes as com- mon in the United States as it is in Europe and Canada, and not all builders are sold. U.S. building codes gen- erally place height limits on all-wood buildings for safety reasons, though a spe- cial committee of the Interna- tional Code Council is inves- tigating potential changes to address the use of CLT in such structures. And research is still underway on criti- cal questions of how these buildings withstand fire and earthquakes in high-seismic regions. Building codes in Oregon allow cutting-edge designs using new technology like CLT in some cases, but only after rigorous testing and an intensive approval process. 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