The province now boasts more than 5, 000 native-owned businesses, some of them joint-ventures, ranging from pipeline construction and timber production to hotels and boat-building.

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"It's under 30 meters because over that UK regulations say that sprinklers have to be installed and other regulations come in to play, " says Craig Liddell, commercial director of KLH UK the company that developed the cross-laminated timber for the building.

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Like Wright, Aalto was building a summer home for wealthy clients timber-fortune heirs Harry and Maire Gullichsen, who commissioned a house in Noormarkku, near the west coast of Finland.

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