Essay: Timber Construction Returns to the City

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Currently multi-storey timber construction is experiencing something of a renaissance all around the globe. 

A sizable part of this upswing is, quite literally, hidden from view. Despite regional differences, the motors that drive development and the obstacles that hinder it are similar in many places, as the following look at the situation in Canada, England and Scandinavia reveals.