Polycube with distinct rectangular faces

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Consider a polycube where all faces are rectangles. In addition to a cuboid, there is the unfolding of a tesseract, the approximation of an octahedron by cubes, and the object below. The component cuboids each have two ends with the same rectangle, namely the repeated $1\times2$, $1\times3$, and $1\times5$ rectangles.

rectangular polycube

What polycubes exist where all faces are distinct rectangles? Here are the six orthographic views of one solution:

polycube with distinct rectangles

This solution has 30 rectangles, is bound by a size 16 cube, and has maximal rectangle edge 15. Can any of these numbers be reduced? Some raw data for the below solution is at Thirty Distinct Rectangle Polyhedron.

thirty rectangles