Dive Brief:

• A coalition of organizations advocating for the use of wood to erect tall buildings looked at the experiences of owners, designers, regulators and builders involved with 10 structures, most of them in Europe.
• The overall finding, according to the report from reThinkWood, is that there is a series of common goals across the disciplines to achieve a building with a lower-than-conventional carbon footprint, and extensive commitment early in the process is key.
• The study also reports that a widespread emphasis by regulators in Europe on minimizing carbon impacts of construction encouraged the projects and that more research on devising and using mass timber is needed.

Dive Insight:

Perkins + Will conducted the study, using a questionnaire and interviews, for the Binational Softwood Lumber Council. One finding was that the projects had no one solution to address questions about durability, fire protection or acoustics.