Majority construction anywhere is whatever can be built with the least cost.

In the US and Canada timber framing for buildings under about 6 feet is least cost. Other places without a lot of timber availability tend to build with other things.

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mayoff 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm pretty sure you meant something other than "buildings under about 6 feet".

	▲	rationalist 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think they meant what they wrote, they just forgot some punctuation. 'timber framing (for buildings) under about 6 feet'
	▲	quickthrowman 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I assume they meant “five-over-one”, five floors of stick built (framed with dimensional lumber, not timber) apartments on top of a concrete and steel first floor. Timber framing is something else entirely, you can construct buildings taller than six stories with engineered wood products. > The mid-rise buildings are normally constructed with four or five wood-frame stories above a concrete podium, usually for retail or resident amenity space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-over-1