Dive summary:

• Working on the premise that it would be faster to assemble houses from factory components if the wood did not have to be nailed together, scientists at a German research institute have devised an adhesive that they say will bind solidly to two pieces of wood and can be applied in a minute.
• One group of researchers came from the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut, and the other from the Institute of Joining and Welding at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, in the same town.
• Their breakthrough discovery was that an adhesive on tape that contains a metal strip could be laid between two pieces of wood at any point and heated by putting current through the metal when builders are ready to join the members, and it will move into the wood pores and then cool and set in a minute.

From the article:

The challenge for the researchers lies not only in finding the ideal adhesive and the most suitable metal strip, but above all in optimizing the interaction of the three components. ...