World's tallest wooden building could herald 'age of timber'

High-rise wooden buildings, such as 14-storey apartment building "The Tree" in Norway, are altering city skylines in what the timber industry is heralding as a new era that will dent the supremacy of concrete and steel. Jim Drury reports.

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