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Using BIM to Deliver Low-Carbon Wood Buildings

BIM model of 1 Londsdale Avenue Commercial Building, North Vancouver, BC. Image © KK Law, Courtesy of naturallywood.com BIM (Building Information Modeling) allows ...
The Washington Post

This old-school building material could take over city skylines

Architects are in a proof-of-concept race to construct sustainable wood high-rises. Oct. 31 at 6:30 a.m. SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest timber ...
Fast Company

Wood buildings should be a requirement of any climate change policy

It’s not as visibly bad as the belching smokestacks of the coal industry or the gas-chugging backups on suburban highways, but the building industry is a major contributor to climate change. From ...
Science Daily

Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry's current carbon emissions

A new study has found that shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If 80% of new residential buildings in ...
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The Case For Tall Wood Buildings

Michael Green is calling for a drastic paradigm shift in the way we build. Forget steel, straw, concrete and shipping containers; use wood to erect urban skyscrapers. In a 240 page report - complete ...