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Building a wooden underground house in the jungle required patience and careful planning. Digging below ground by hand made every mistake harder to correct, especially when working with natural wood.

The assumption that wood houses are not made to last is simply that: an assumption—and an incorrect one at that. The oldest wood building in the world is Japan’s Hōryū-ji pagoda, which has a cypress ...

Three years ago, the head of state instructed the government to develop a mechanism for allocating timber for private residential construction at a lower cost. Around the same time, forestry ...

In Puerto Rico, a U.S. Caribbean island exposed to both hurricanes and earthquakes, it is estimated that over half of all commercial and residential construction is constructed informally. While this ...