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The Compact Wooden City: A Life-Cycle Analysis of How Timber Could Help Combat Climate Change
2016-06-02 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arch Daily: Nowadays the main building materials used in the construction industry are concrete, steel and timber. From the point of view of ecological sustainability, there are four important differences between these three materials: first, timber is the only material of the three that is renewable; second, timber needs only a small amount of energy to be extracted and recycled compared to steel and concrete (but the implementation of its potential is not as developed yet); third, timber does not produce waste...
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