Green Building with Wood: A Sustainable Choice

The practice of “green building,” or high performance or sustainable buildings, is growing quickly. Green building addresses energy consumption, greenhouse gases and indoor air quality, among other concerns, and wood has been a natural material choice.

When it comes to design versatility, environmental health, carbon footprint and overall sustainability, wood as a building material is extremely hard to beat. Architects are comfortable designing with it, builders universally know how to work with it, and it’s one of the only construction materials in existence that is truly renewable. Structures made of wood, like the forests from which the building materials were derived, naturally sequester carbon.