

  1. Cost-effectiveness in a wide range of projects.
  2. Adaptability for use in challenging, visionary new designs.
  3. Lower environmental costs throughout its life cycle, from its source in renewable, carefully managed forests, through an energy-efficient service life.
  4. A unique human-nature connection that has always been intuitive, but is now being documented in research.

Learning Objectives

  • Compare the material, project and environmental costs of wood to other building materials.
  • Explain innovative wood technologies and how they are contributing to a wide range of sustainable designs.
  • Discuss the environmental impact of wood throughout its life cycle, including its renewability, certification options, impacts on energy efficiency, low carbon footprint, and end-of-life recycling and reuse.
  • Examine research and examples demonstrating the positive impact of exposed wood on a building’s occupants.

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