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Originally Posted by Azure
Well I am very familiar with the concrete issue, and one reason it is taking so long to switch out is because governments are slow to approve CLT & other alternatives to concrete as building products.
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Yup. And it's expensive to scale, so not only does it need approvals in building codes in so many jurisdictions, it needs federal policies to put it on the same foot as regular concrete. It's a tough nut to crack without yet another industry disruption with incumbents standing to lose everything. To move these things will inevitably pick winners and losers and that's politically unpalatable. Hence the gridlock