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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber With advances in wood product development and building Seeing the Forest code acceptance, mass timber structural systems have become viable alternatives to steel and concrete structural systems and the Trees: (Post 2015). These mass timber systems have environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration ability and lower green- Environmental house gas emissions than steel and concrete systems. How can mass timber materials such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) Impacts of Cross- reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, and how cer- Laminated Timber tain is this reduction? In order to truly answer this question, environmental impact assessments of CLT and other wood materials must first address variation and uncertainty in forest management and biogenic carbon accounting. Given the climate change crisis, in addition to reducing green- house gas emissions from operational energy, reductions asso- ciated with materials and buildings is rapidly becoming a priority for the design and construction industry. By 2060, the global built floor area will likely grow by 230 billion square meters, essentially doubling the existing building stock (International Energy Agency 2017, 126), so radical changes to materials and processes are necessary to limit emissions despite a growing global population and its accompanying need for built space. Decreasing the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Technology Architecture + Design Taylor & Francis

Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber

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With advances in wood product development and building Seeing the Forest code acceptance, mass timber structural systems have become viable alternatives to steel and concrete structural systems and the Trees: (Post 2015). These mass timber systems have environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration ability and lower green- Environmental house gas emissions than steel and concrete systems. How can mass timber materials such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) Impacts of Cross- reduce the...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2020 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
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2475-143x
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2475-1448
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10.1080/24751448.2020.1804754
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Abstract

With advances in wood product development and building Seeing the Forest code acceptance, mass timber structural systems have become viable alternatives to steel and concrete structural systems and the Trees: (Post 2015). These mass timber systems have environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration ability and lower green- Environmental house gas emissions than steel and concrete systems. How can mass timber materials such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) Impacts of Cross- reduce the environmental impacts of buildings, and how cer- Laminated Timber tain is this reduction? In order to truly answer this question, environmental impact assessments of CLT and other wood materials must first address variation and uncertainty in forest management and biogenic carbon accounting. Given the climate change crisis, in addition to reducing green- house gas emissions from operational energy, reductions asso- ciated with materials and buildings is rapidly becoming a priority for the design and construction industry. By 2060, the global built floor area will likely grow by 230 billion square meters, essentially doubling the existing building stock (International Energy Agency 2017, 126), so radical changes to materials and processes are necessary to limit emissions despite a growing global population and its accompanying need for built space. Decreasing the

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Technology Architecture + Design – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 2, 2020

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