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
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Mass Timber Code Coalition Factsheet
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International Code Council
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ATF
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Guardian Article
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Our World in Data
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Greenpeace Report - "Feeding the Problem"
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