Some builders constructing very tall buildings using a traditional material — wood — in a new way. But how sustainable is it?

New Delhi-based studio Architecture Discipline has created a sea-facing, mass-timber home covered in charred-wood cladding in ...

“The largest one is the level of carbon sequestration in the timber.” It’s estimated this building will offset 7,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide, Korb said. That’s the amount of ...

What are forest and rangeland carbon offsets? Forest and rangeland carbon offsets help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by providing payments for activities that lead to the sequestration of carbon ...

The bill also contains a reporting requirement for a whole building life cycle assessment, where the results will provide additional evidence of the carbon sequestration benefits of mass timber ...

"As awareness grows around the environmental impact of construction, mass-timber's carbon-sequestering properties and renewable nature make it an ideal solution," he continued. "It is time for a ...

But it contradicts other advice to increase timber construction because trees lock up climate-heating carbon emissions. In France, President Macron has ruled all new publicly-funded buildings ...