Engineered Wood and the Environment: Resources
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Environmental Posters
APA offers a set of four educational posters that demonstrate why wood is a great green building product. The posters, Wood: Nature's Air Purifier (Form E250), Wood: More Product, Less Energy (Form E255), Wood: Better Mileage on the Green Highway (Form E260), and Wood: Demand Keeps It Growing (Form E265), offer different informative facts about the environmentally friendly nature of wood. Each 18 x 27 poster can be purchased individually for $3 or the set of four can be purchased for $10 at the poster section of apawood.org. Previews of the poster content are also available.
Environmental Publication
APA's environmental brochure, Wood: Sustainable Building Solutions (Form F305), expands upon the information available on this site. The brochure is available for both hard copy purchase or free PDF download at www.apawood.org/publications.
Links
- Athena Sustainable Materials Institute
- CORRIM
- Dovetail Partners, Inc.
- Evergreen Magazine
- Forintek
- The Green Building Initiative (for information on Green Globes)
- National Green Building Standard ICC-700-2008 (NAHB/ANSI)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Builing for Environmental and Economic Sustainability (BEES)
- Temperate Forest Foundation
- U.S. Green Building Council
- Wood Promotion Network
Related Information
CORRIM (Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials) fact sheets:
• Maximizing Forest Contributions to Carbon Mitigation, Fact sheet 5 (416 KB PDF)
• Product and Process Environmental Improvement Analysis for Buildings, Fact sheet 6 (166 KB PDF)
Wood and Green Building fact sheets produced by the Wood Promotion Network:
• LEED® vs. Green Globes™, Form WP G330 (778 KB PDF)
• Home Builder Guidelines, Form WP G335 (769 KB PDF)
• The Role of Life Cycle Assessment, Form WP G340 (901 KB PDF)
• Using Wood to Fight Climate Change, Form WP G345 (773 KB PDF)
Related Publication:
Wood: Sustainable Building Solutions, Form F305 (3 Mb)