| Despite the global rise of timber as a low-carbon building material, enthusiasm for its use has ground to a near-halt in the UK, where the deadly 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower has prompted regulations against using wood and other "combustible materials" in taller buildings. For builders, that's meant more costs, complications — and hesitation. Before constructing a six-story London office tower out of mass timber, for example, builders had to create a full-scale section of it, transport it to Poland and set it ablaze to see if it would pass the fire test. The Grenfell tragedy, though, had little to do with timber itself — and everything to do with Britain's troubled construction industry, Olivia Rudgard writes for the Bloomberg Green series Timber Town. Today on CityLab: Fire Fears After Grenfell Disaster Set Back Wood Building in UK — Immanual John Milton How the Dutch Mastered Bike Parking at Train Stations
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