What Does the Public Believe about Tall Wood Buildings? An Exploratory Study in the US Pacific Northwest

Larasatie, Pipiet; Guerrero, Jose E; Conroy, Kendall; Hall, Troy E.; Hansen, Eric; Needham, Mark D.

doi:10.1093/jofore/fvy025

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“…Other traditional wood building products can be utilized in these building systems as well but in much smaller quantities. The use of CLT as a building material started in Europe in the 1990s and in the last decade, many CLT mass timber buildings have been built worldwide because of its positive environmental benefits and potential local economic impacts [92,104]. There are sustainability assessment tools specifically designed for whole building LCA analysis.…”

Section: Mass Timber Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review

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Climate change, environmental degradation, and limited resources are motivations for sustainable forest management. Forests, the most abundant renewable resource on earth, used to make a wide variety of forest-based products for human consumption. To provide a scientific measure of a product’s sustainability and environmental performance, the life cycle assessment (LCA) method is used. This article provides a comprehensive review of environmental performances of forest-based products including traditional building products, emerging (mass-timber) building products and nanomaterials using attributional LCA. Across the supply chain, the product manufacturing life-cycle stage tends to have the largest environmental impacts. However, forest management activities and logistics tend to have the greatest economic impact. In addition, environmental trade-offs exist when regulating emissions as indicated by the latest traditional wood building product LCAs. Interpretation of these LCA results can guide new product development using biomaterials, future (mass) building systems and policy-making on mitigating climate change. Key challenges include handling of uncertainties in the supply chain and complex interactions of environment, material conversion, resource use for product production and quantifying the emissions released.

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Section: Mass Timber Buildingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review

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“…Compared to comprehension on technological, ecological, social and economic aspects of using wood in construction, there are deficiencies in understanding consumer perceptions of the acceptability of wood as a material, the acceptability of wood as a material (Gold and Rubik 2009). In addition, so far, the studies approaching views of general audience on the properties of wood in construction (such as Larasatie et al 2018) have by-passed the potential connections between their perceptions on different characteristics of wood as a building material and consumer willingness to consider living in a modern house made of timber.…”

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Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

Lähtinen

Harju

Toppinen³

2019

Wood Material Science & Engineering

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Multi-storey wood building (MSWB) provides options to enhance sustainable development. Despite this, no comprehension exists on how consumer perceptions differ regarding (1) willingness to live in modern houses made of timber or (2) prejudices against living in houses made of wood, although they play important role in marked demand of MSWB. In this research, views of consumers on the benefits of wood from technological, ecological, social and economic perspectives are being studied. The material of the study is based on data gathered in June-July 2018 by a postal survey sent for 1000 people living in Finland with a response rate of 25.6%. According to the factor analysis results, there are two main consumer categories based on their perceptions on sustainability benefits of wood, i.e. the ones favouring ecological and physiotechnological benefits of wood and the ones favouring aesthetic and well-being benefits of wood. Additionally, according to binary regression analysis results, they differ from each other in their willingness to live in wooden houses and in their prejudices against the appropriateness of wood as a structural material. The results emphasize the need for deepening the understanding of the sustainability issues affecting the acceptability of wood among different types of consumers.

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“…With innovations in engineered wood products (e.g., cross-laminated timber), it is now possible to construct buildings over 40 stories tall made primarily from wood [37]. The public believes that tall wood buildings are more aesthetically pleasing and create a positive living environment [38]. Growing interest in using wood in advanced manufacturing will attract more diverse talent to the forest sector workforce.…”

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The “Catch-22” of Representation of Women in the Forest Sector: The Perspective of Student Leaders in Top Global Forestry Universities

Larasatie

Barnett

Hansen

2020

Forests

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Although there are continuous efforts aimed at increasing gender diversity, the forest sector is still largely perceived as a male dominated field, indicated by a persistent masculine image. As a result, women are still underrepresented. Utilizing interviews, we found that greater representation of women in the forest sector is considered as one of the best solutions to attract young women to the industry. However, it presents a 'Catch-22' in which the solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem. We propose to change the forest sector image by tackling gender issues such as sexual harassment, and by simultaneously focusing on the good features of the industry such as its important role in a sustainable future and solutions for the modern world. For example, the sector can show its role in mitigating climate change and in supporting a more sustainable future economy (e.g., bioeconomy and green jobs) and urban built environment. In addition, changing the forest sector image should be supported with better marketing and promotion in various platforms, both online and offline. The sector also needs to utilize social media to attract younger generations.

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What Does the Public Believe about Tall Wood Buildings? An Exploratory Study in the US Pacific Northwest

Cited by 41 publications

References 10 publications

Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review

Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review

Consumers’ perceptions on the properties of wood affecting their willingness to live in and prejudices against houses made of timber

The “Catch-22” of Representation of Women in the Forest Sector: The Perspective of Student Leaders in Top Global Forestry Universities

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