Engineered Timber - building the skyscrapers of our future.

Modern technology has enabled timber to be engineered in such a way that it can be used as an apparently "carbon negative" replacement for steel in very tall buildings. Timber cities might therefore become a very real part of our future. But can we afford the land required to create vast new timber plantations? Now a new research paper has crunched the numbers...

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Research links

Potsdam Research Paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32244-w

Mass Timber Code Coalition Factsheet
https://www.thinkwood.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MTCC_Factsheet.pdf

International Code Council
https://www.iccsafe.org/about/who-we-are/

ATF
https://www.atf.gov/laboratories/fire-research-laboratory

Guardian Article
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/30/timber-cities-could-cut-100bn-tons-of-co2-emissions-by-2100

Our World in Data
https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

Greenpeace Report - "Feeding the Problem"
https://www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-eu-unit-stateless/2019/02/83254ee1-190212-feeding-the-problem-dangerous-intensification-of-animal-farming-in-europe.pdf

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