Over the past four weeks Team Structures has been brainstorming possible building strategies for our green oak pallet cants. They have considered things such as traditional heavy timber methods, engineered fastening techniques, and everything in between. A meeting was held this past Thursday between two professors in the Engineering Department, Dr. Retherford and Dr. Bennett, to discuss three possible building strategies. Most of the topics discussed revolved around spanning capabilities of the oak beams. Our proposed schemes are based on prefabricated methods to help ease the cost of construction as well as material efficiency. Because the methods proposed were more unconventional, our team was a bit skeptical as to how well they would be received by our structural experts, but we are glad to report that the preliminary discussion was a very positive one. Our Green Oak Initiative team is very excited about this step, it seems to give us a solid lead on a potential candidate to demonstrate at D.C!
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