## 3 Wood as a Modern Construction Material for Modular Buildings  
The significant role of wood in tall buildings has captured the attention of researchers, construction professionals, and governments worldwide in the past decade. The material's sustainable profile, coupled with its structural properties, such as favorable bending behavior and weight-resistance ratio, has boosted the growing interest in using wood for multi-story structures in the current context. Addressing the question \"Why should one believe it is possible to construct modern tall buildings from wood?\", [PERSON] and [PERSON] [21] conducted a study focused on the specifics of tall timber buildings to identify the key requirements and structural engineering challenges. Analyzing buildings between 10 and 20 stories, they concluded that wood and wood-based products meet the required structural strength functions similarly to concrete and steel. Moreover, wood has the potential to surpass the conservatism of building codes regarding fire safety, ensuring an adequate amount of time for evacuation and firefighting. They emphasized the need for prefabricated systems to ensure that the proper construction details for enhanced mechanical responses and expected functionality (occupant comfort and structural maintenance) can be met. In recent years, the typology of multi-story timber buildings has gained momentum in European countries. The completion of pioneering projects, such as the Limnologen residential tower in Vaxjo (2008) and the Stadthaus in London (2009), the world's first nine-story all- timber residential building, indicates a growing confidence in this typology. Historical large-scale fires played a crucial role in hindering the use of structural wood elements in tall buildings, evident in numerous regulatory barriers present in building codes worldwide. In the European context, despite regulatory requirements not distinguishing between materials, limitations on combustible materials make timber less competitive [22], confining most timber buildings in European countries to a restricted number of stories. In addition to the standardization of national regulations, government incentives have also made a significant contribution to the consolidation of tall timber construction, especially in leading European countries. Whether to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions or to promote the timber industry, national economies, employment, or exports from countries with forest reserves, governments have encouraged the use of timber in buildings through environmental policies that promote wood as a building material over steel and concrete. In France, for example, a law was passed requiring the use of timber for  
Figure 2: Distribution patterns of the selected records of the review (**a**) by record typology; (**b**) by year. new buildings, except in cases where evidence of incompatibility, usually related to safety, health, or building performance, is provided [23]. In British Columbia, Canada, the Wood First Act [24] aims to foster a wood culture by requiring it to be the first material considered in the early stages of all new provincially funded building projects. In Japan, the Wood First law highlights a preference for wood in the development of public buildings [25]. Programs like Nationella trabyggnadsstrategin and Trastad in Sweden aimed to promote tall wood building construction and were responsible for the rapid increase in interest in the typology in the country [26]. In certain locations, strategic targets were set for vertical wood building construction to reach 50% by 2020 [27].