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Originally Posted by darklord700

City has approved tallker wood frame building to be constructed. At the advantage of only 20% cost savings at the most, I'm not sure cheapning the already insufficient building code is worth it.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...652/story.html

who's willing to bet those cost savings won't be passed on to the end consumer. It will be the developers that profit. The main costs associated with real-estate in Calgary is land price and labor, NOT materials. If I was in the market to build my own house it would be out of concrete not wood.