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e are in a climate crisis. This is especially relevant to how we live because buildings generate nearly 40 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions come from building operations and construction — the CO2 produced before and after the building is operational. The shift to mass timber as a replacement for concrete and steel in mid-rise buildings is part of the industry’s response to the crisis. Timber has the capacity for long-term carbon storage (as growing trees remove carbon from the atmosphere), wood is less energy-intensive to manufacture than steel or concrete, and
