The modern industrial era was literally built on steel and concrete, readily available materials that gave buildings the strength to stretch hundreds of stories into the sky. Unlike wood ...

In this airy lab on the ground floor of a four-story building made of similar beams, the crucial question is when the wood ... in concrete and steel, spewing pollution, we won’t have a planet ...

In this sylvan vision, wooden skylines will be erected with glued lumber laminates that rival steel and concrete ... cabin. Wood buildings are climbing skyward — with pluses for the planet.] ...

According to research from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, if we were to turn back the clocks and construct buildings from wood instead of concrete and steel, urban areas could ...

But instead of delivering concrete, it’s manoeuvring giant chunks of wood to construction ... wooden neighborhood on the planet—alongside the apartment buildings rapidly taking shape, there ...

The project is part of a growing trend in the Finnish building industry. Developers are increasingly swapping out more mainstream materials like concrete and steel, in favour of wood. It's linked ...

Just when you had given up on trees, wooden buildings ... steel and concrete sucks up a lot of energy and releases a lot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Wood not only takes less energy ...

But there can also be major sustainability benefits to wood as a building material. “As cities are growing, they’re using a tremendous amount of concrete and steel, and the problem with that ...

Chad Oliver has minor ownership (5%) in a forest inventory company, SilviaTerra. In the past, he has consulted for the forest industry, the U.S.Forest Service, the United Nations, and other public ...

In this airy lab on the ground floor of a four-story building made of similar beams, the crucial question is when the wood ... in concrete and steel, spewing pollution, we won’t have a planet ...