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Re:Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age by laurencerowe on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @04:45PM (#36977135)
While you see some very old timber buildings in the UK from the 1500s and 1600s, we mostly switched to brick centuries ago since we’d cut down most of our trees.

Lots of new timber buildings in the Nordics as they have plenty of trees.

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Re:Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age by rich_sasha on Thursday August 03, 2023 @06:13AM (#36983749)
Nordics I didn't know about.

But I believe most of the new housing developments are mostly wood. Brick is external only and possibly not even structural, the heavy lifting is all timber.

But I certainly no expert so could be wrong.

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Re:Horrifying numbers of Americans will not make it to old age by laurencerowe on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:44PM (#36992410)
It seems to vary by region.

> In Scotland timber frame homes already account for around 75% of all new housing, compared to 23% in England.

https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/mmc-news/timber-frame-homes-...

Certainly the vast majority of newer homes I saw in England had brick / breeze block los bearing walls.

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