Starts and Stumbles: The Rocky Road to Europe's Ambitious Timber Construction Targets.

EUROPE IS a clear leader in mass-timber construction - home to 60 of the world's 84 tall timber structures (eight-plus stories), according to a 2022 count by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat - and there's no shortage of ambition to scale up. Waugh Thistleton Architects, designer of a six-story mass-timber office building in London (above), is collaborating on efforts to create prewarrantied wood-construction details for both the residential and construction sectors. [Extracted from the article]