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One group working on this is the Natural Material Innovation group at Cambridge: https://www.natmat.group.cam.ac.uk/research/natmat

"Timber Towers" London proposal: https://www.natmat.group.cam.ac.uk/news/timber-towers-could-... (2019)

(encountered via the easy-listening of BBC Radio 4's 39 Ways to Save the Planet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qy43 )

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Similarly, see the University of British Columbia's Wood Building Design & Construction Centre:

https://wbdc.ubc.ca/

and the Province Of British Columbia's Wood First Initiative:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/industry/forestry/support...

For those familiar with American building practices, it's interesting to see some stark contrasts. This video discusses solid timber walls (among other interesting features) in a Swiss building project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlplalGNfFM

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