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To: ManyMoose who wrote (38902)	6/28/2007 1:26:29 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541915

>>No, I'm saying that it is possible to design wood houses that can withstand tornadoes and hurricanes. Standard woodframe houses don't cut it. << MM - I'm not an architect, but I think it's reasonable to expect that if you design a wooden house to withstand hurricanes, you're going to be using a lot more wood than usual. Larger main beams, that sort of thing. So your costs will go up. By the way, the fact that builders in the US use woodframe construction more than any other method doesn't necessarily prove that it's the most economical approach. It's possible that they just continue to do what they know how to do, because that's easier than learning whole new methods and retraining workers. - Allen