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Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry’s current carbon emissions – EurekAlert
A new study has found that shifting to wood as a building construction material would significantly reduce the environmental impact of building construction. If…
IMAGE: The Aikalava pavillion was build to celebrate Finland’s 100th birthday.
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Credit: Photo: Vesa Loikas
Buildings around us create a whopping one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions — that is about ten times more than air traffic worldwide. In Europe alone about 190 million square metres of housing space are built each year, mainly in the cities, and the amount is growing quickly at the rate of nearly one percent a year.
A recent study by researchers at Aalto University and…
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