There's quite a story too around the growing of wood and the capturing of carbon, the harvesting of wood, and the energy consumption in making wood products as compared to steel and concrete.
Another huge story is seismic activity. If you look at homes, I think there are examples in Kyoto, where earthquakes dropped concrete buildings and all the wooden structures were still standing because wood has the ability to flex with the movement of an earthquake. Wood performs very well in those conditions.