The future is wooden

By Anna Winston2009-07-21T19:09:00

It seems that the days of concrete high-rises and brick houses may be numbered - especially in disaster prone urban environments - as experiments show that wood could be the most economical (and eco friendly) earthquake resistant building material.Elsewhere on the world wide web, the New York Time's Nicolai Ouroussoff ...

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