Agree. My first house was a wood-frame bungalow built near the prior turn of the century. As long as you don't get termites, and maintain the roof and siding so you don't have water leaking in, wood houses will last basically forever, or at least on the order of 100 years.

I'd like to point out that wood 100 years ago was mostly old growth, which differs drastically to the lumber available today.

Modern mass timber more than corrects that problem. It does a fantastic job using fast growing, new growth lumber to produce highly precise parts that are factory produced exactly to spec to nearly eliminate waste.

Highly precise lumber parts sounds like an oxymoron. The standard assumption for wood is that it's only straight while it's being cut. If they've invented fix for that, it's not gonna be the wood that they're using that does it, but some extra processing to make like a particle board or something

Modern mass timber has advanced a long way beyond cheap particle board. Read up on cross laminated timber. Manufactured and cut exactly to size and often requires no cutting on site.

>with modern mass timber solutions rather than raw wood

Do you mean things like LSL?

I actually wonder what the longevity of LSL is compared to raw wood. Since it's a ton of resin mixed with wood, I wonder about the resin part of it.

It does seem much better to build with as bugs won't eat it and it's perfectly straight.

Laminated strand is certainly under the heading of mass timber, but I’m referring more to cross laminated timber (CLT). It still uses resin, but with much more wood it doesn’t suffer from the sort of rot and de-laminating problems OSB has, but it’s still highly engineered and highly precise like LSL.

Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) has become common in North America for beams and joists. CLT uses even larger components and is even more flexible. It’s just starting to be used but you can build everything from a house to 20 storey buildings.

I know nothing about this, but do you know what the environmental/recyclable potential of the resins are?