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| Wood: The Sustainable Choice for Green Building |
- No other material can match wood's unique combination of benefits, including strength, affordability, ease of use and environmental superiority.
- Wood-frame construction has a 100-year track record for safety and dependability. That's why nine out of 10 homes today are built with wood.
- Building codes require all materials to provide the same degree of protection, even for extreme events such as earthquakes and hurricanes. Wood-frame construction is as safe, sturdy and dependable a building material as any other.
- Wood is the best insulator against heat and cold, which makes it the most energy-efficient material that can help keep home energy bills in check. Unlike steel and concrete, wood doesn't conduct heat and cold. Wood is 400 times less heat conductive than steel, so homes built with wood studs take less energy to heat and cool.
- Wood is the most affordable building material. The economy of wood construction is one of the many reasons why wood-frame construction has remained the preferred method for residential construction.
- Wood is easy to use and widely available. Its practicality and workability make construction simple and efficient for use in residential or commercial applications, including multi-story projects.
- As the world's only renewable building material, wood can not only be recycled, but regenerated as well. What's more, trees provide benefits to the environment while they grow, taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
- Wood contributes fewer greenhouse gas emissions than its non-renewable
counterparts, steel and concrete. While wood accounts for 46% of all
industrial raw materials worldwide, it uses a mere 4% of the energy
required to produce raw materials into useful products.
- See our Sustainable Forestry and Green Building links.
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