Carpenter installs wooden roof rafters on Leed Platinum Common Ground High School building.

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Construction workers install roof rafters on Leed Platinum Common Ground High School building. 15,000 square foot building was built off-site, then installed in pieces via crane. Some interior wood is engineered lumber created by the Enviro-Lam process invented by Nordic Structures, that uses pieces as small as 1 x 2 inches to create structurally strong pieces glued with water based adhesives. Glulam construction is part of new green architectural trend called Mass Timber Construction

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Size: 7360px × 4912px
Location: New Haven, CT. USA
Photo credit: © Michael Doolittle / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: building, carpenter, construction, cross, glulam, green, labor, labour, laminated, leed, mass, modular, platinum, rafter, rafters, technology, timber, wood, wooden, work, worker