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Robots to build Canada’s 9-story timber tower in just 90 days (interestingengineering.com)

submitted 6 days ago by aka@lemm.ee to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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Mass timer buildings are prefabricated structures made of (hopefully renewable) wood. The pieces are made in a factory and then able to be quickly constructed together on-site.

This can hopefully greatly reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere from producing a building. The cost of producing buildings in this method is also going down. Additionally, these mass timer buildings are typically more dense than single family homes, which can lead to more sustainable communities.

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[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I always forget that you Yanks have things like HOAs, and can't keep chickens or paint your house the colour you like.

Don't you have the freedom to leave the Home Owners Association, or set up your own one?

Edit: apparently it's in the EU. I only really know British and to a lesser Chinese housing stuff. China does have HOA style stuff.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not a yank, as you've already discovered. But to answer your question, I don't know about suburbs and the like, my experience is only with apartment building hoas and no, you can't leave them. The thing is part of the property is shared–like corridors, stairways, lifts, any space that is not a home, even the facades...

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 days ago

With blocks of flats I can kinda make sense of them existing, similar to how China has them for all the gated communities.

I'll choose to wallow in anti-Americanism and assume that only they're mad enough to have them for suburban collections of discrete, seperate, house style properties.