Wood is the most environmentally friendly of all structural building materials available today because it is renewable and sustainable . However, timber does have many limitations when it comes to constructing a home. First of all, while it is renewable, it takes a long time to grow a tree of suitable size to provide trusses, sheathing, and framing lumber; builders and architects are further limited in the maximum size of components that can be milled from most mature trees. Lumber warps, splits...