Re:InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that's stronger ...
by supermatt on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @03:54PM
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You're clearly out of your depth here. Dropping into one city on Street View and thinking you understand an entire country's building traditions is laughable.
In Sweden, around 80% of standing homes are wooden. 90% of new single-family homes use wood. Gothenburg is the exception, not the rule, thanks to 19th-century zoning laws that limited wooden buildings to two storeys.
The Netherlands is Western Europe, not Northern or Central - basic geography.
Wood dominates residential construction in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Finland, and Norway. Denmark is about 50/50. Poland uses more masonry today but has a strong wooden tradition in the south.
You're making sweeping claims about places you clearly haven't spent any real time in. Maybe do some proper research before pretending to be an expert.
It will be relatively similar to most other major European cities; solid masonry construction has historically been the norm.
You'll find some wooden houses in smaller towns and rural areas, but even there, if you head over to e.g. Poland, most things will be solid masonry. And the wooden construction is mostly relatively new; what you'll rarely find is old wooden construction.