With pressure to increase home-building, wooden houses built off-site and constructed more quickly than the brick equivalent could be the way forward.
Such houses are warmer, more energy-efficient, cost-effective and can be built more quickly, with the process requiring fewer people and being less dependent on the weather, Stewart Milne Timber Systems managing director Alex Goodfellow says.
The number of wooden homes being built could increase to 100,000 annually from 50,000, he reckons.
