Flat-packed cities: wooden skyscrapers sprout over concrete concerns

A quiet contest in constructing tall wooden buildings underlines growing environmental concerns over concrete, from Amsterdam to Tokyo

For more than a century, countries have raced to build the world’s tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now, a…

Full text: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-construction-wood/flat-packed-cities-wooden-skyscrapers-sprout-over-concrete-concerns-idUSKCN1VB08V

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Rina Chandran

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Reuters.com, 2019-08-21.

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