We have wooden houses here in Norway that are considerably more than a hundred years old and wooden churches from Viking times nine hundred years ago. My house

We have wooden houses here in Norway that are considerably more than a hundred years old and wooden churches from Viking times nine hundred years ago. My house is timber frame, built in 1952, and there is no reason why it should not last until the end of this century. But many US timber frame houses are built on the assumption that they will be demolished after only forty or fifty years and built accordingly.