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Kat Burn, a biotech executive, and Michael Burn, who has a background in computer programming and startup firms, consider themselves tech savvy.

So when the couple decided to build a new house in Bend, Ore., they opted to use a building method that is almost unheard of in American single-family home construction: prefabricated, solid-engineered wood panels called cross-laminated timber (CLT). They thought using CLT would expedite the building process.

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