The construction site of the Vantage warehousing complex in north Dublin is an unmissable sight for anyone driving into the city on the N2. Not that the skeletons of new industrial buildings are anything unusual in this well-connected area, but the 18-metre-high structures now emerging along the dual carriageway are entirely made of timber. During a site visit on Monday, I asked Laurence Flood, director of the project’s developer Newpark Real Estate, how new this use of wooden construction materials was in Ireland. “It hasn’t been done on the scale that we’re doing it, ever before,” he replied. Timber frames…