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Timber and Engineered Wood Materials

Wood as a building material, from solid sawn timber through the twentieth century's engineered wood products: plywood, glued laminated timber, oriented strand board and cordwood construction. Belongs here: any named timber or engineered-wood material considered for its own composition and structural properties, distinct from cross laminated timber, already carried under Elements and Materials. Does not belong here: the framing systems such materials enable, such as the balloon frame or post and lintel construction, which is Elements and Materials' subject.

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Era of Emergence
594 CE 1
Origin Region
Japan 1
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  • Wikipedia: Horyu-ji, Lead section
    A tree ring survey conducted in 2001 revealed that the shinbashira of the five-story pagoda were cut down in 594, before it burned down in 670.
  • Wikipedia, Horyu-ji, lead section
    Horyu-ji...is a Buddhist temple that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan.
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