As the global population continues to expand, housing shortage has become the world's leading industrial cities face problems. The multi-storey wooden frame house is the solution to high land values and construction costs of the method. In particular the 3 ~ 5-story wood frame house construction because of its speed and material costs on the merits of a potential to provide economic housing. In the United States, most cities have already begun to shift manufacture of multi-storey wood frame housing to urban development in a limited space to provide more housing units.

At present, the multi-storey wooden frame house has been widely used not only limited to the United States and Canada, in Japan, Australia and Europe, this form of housing is also very popular. In the United States, wood is the preferred residential construction materials. Last year 1.5 million new homes are built, of which about 75% for single-family homes and 25% of households. While the former has nearly 90% are using wood frame structure.