Questioning the benefits of incorporating wood into ever-larger construction can feel like swimming against the tide.
“What your mind is doing is connecting the dots of everything else in that sensory experience. And so what your mind is beginning to tell you is the last time I was around this wood environment, it was a place that was warm, and I felt warm.”released last month titled 2024 Logging Emissions Update questions one of the foundational arguments surrounding the carbon reduction benefits of wood.
WIKIPEDIA – A new report shines light on the carbon emissions resulting from the logging industry in Canada.say “in practice the eco-costs of forest management is negligible,” the re-statement of logging emissions made in the 2024 report make for important reading.that takes into account that even though carbon is stored in long-lived wood products, the forest floor becomes a carbon emission source for a number of years after trees are harvested as it releases carbon from soil and forest debris.
In fact, carbon emissions associated with logging, and therefore with mass timber construction products, begin when forestry trucks leave the company parking lot. That’s followed by the machinery used for harvesting, transportation back to a mill and on to MTC processing, and final delivery to a building site perhaps hundreds of kilometres away.