Welcome again to Sustainability Road, our podcast on the intersection of economic actual property and the world we dwell in.
For this episode, I’m speaking about mass timber building with Varun Kohli, director of sustainability for Corgan, a world structure and design agency with 19 places of work.
In a current examine, sustainability and analysis groups at Corgan joined collectively to get a greater understanding of the lifecycle of mass timber—from forest to set up and past—and the variables that impression its use. The aim was to assist architects and builders account for all of the embodied carbon related to this more and more widespread constructing materials.
The outcomes of their examine are serving to dispel a few of the myths about mass timber, and a mass timber carbon calculator now sits on the corporate’s web site.
“ That’s actually the place we need to make an impression,” Kohli mentioned. “You’ll be able to’t merely say, ‘we need to use mass timber.’ Let’s get into the specifics of the place it’s coming from, the way it’s being managed and see how that impacts your general carbon emissions.”
Right here’s a pattern of the subjects we mentioned:
The attract of mass timber (2:22)
Misconceptions about mass timber (3:51)
Corgan’s mass timber analysis undertaking (5:51)
Managing what’s left behind within the forest (6:03)
The transportation piece (9:25)
The Corgan mass timber calculator (13:21)
The embodied carbon debate (15:54)
Mixing analysis and sustainability (21:34)
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