If I could change one thing in the Building code

[The_Saints]

Let's allow the use of globally accepted alternative materials, Such as bamboo. An example of the use would be bamboo in place of re-bar within concrete. Why dig iron ore out of the ground on the other side of the world, ship it somewhere else where we then expend the energy and cost of making it into steel bars, and then ship those bars to another facility where they are rolled into re-bar. And, after all of that, they have to be shipped over the ocean to our island? We can grow an acceptable substitute right here locally. Let us keep it local; let us use a local resource; let us keep the money here. I would very much prefer to source as much as possible from local resources supplied by local people. Why force me to send the money to the mainland or another country.