Legend has it that he erected a three-meter high wooden caber outside the capital south gate, and offered a reward to whoever could move it to the north gate.
To help win approval for the construction of the Ascent building, the us Forest Service carried out tests on the laminated timber columns it would use.
Originally, the Sanctuary would have been two stone circles, one set within the other, and then around them and inside them were standing timber posts.
It contained numerous little ante-rooms, garrets, closets, and box-rooms, little landings with balustrades, little statues on carved wooden pillars, and all kinds of back passages and sculleries.
The tragic end of James Dobbin, crushed under a wooden stay during Titanic's celebrated launch, is just the latest fatal accident involving the new Olympic-class vessels.
So particularly on Ascent with mass timber columns or glulam columns, we knew that char shorter duration we needed to actually quantify through physical testing.