Green Building

With the green building market estimated to reach as high as $140 billion by 2013, Securing a strong place for wood is essential to the wood products industry’s future growth. That means both telling the positive story of wood’s renewable, energy efficient advantages, as well as defending against anti-wood bias in rating systems. Strong, unified industry support is essential as the green building battlefield continues to spread from the state to the federal level.

Promoting Wood’s Environmental Advantages More attention is being paid than ever before to how buildings impact the environment, including the choices of materials used in construction and how those materials help conserve energy during operation. Wood is the perfect green building material because it is renewable, stores carbon that reduces greenhouse gases, and is energy efficient.