Wood as a Sustainable Building Material Quiz

Once you have passed and submitted the quiz, you will receive your AIA or ICC Certificate of Completion.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the abundant ecological capacity of North America to support a wide distribution of forests and forest types
  • Understand how the symbiotic relationship between forests and the people of North America have evolved over the past centuries
  • Discuss how the use of a variety of forest products can economically support sustainable management of forest lands
  • Describe how to quantify environmental choices in the selection of materials through the use of life cycle analysis (LCA) and carbon accounting

 

1. We have ________ forested land in North America today than we had 50 years ago.
2. Net annual growth in U.S. forests is approximately _____ annual removals.
3. What percentage of forested land in the United States is privately owned?
4. What percentage of wood products are harvested from privately owned forests?
5. What is the biggest challenge to western forests' restoration?
6. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) believes what strategy will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit?
7. Which is NOT a sustainability benefit of wood as a building material?
8. How much carbon is stored in wood?
9. What is NOT a method of forest rehabilitation?
10. In a study on wood versus steel home designs produced by Dovetail Partners, wood outperformed steel in all categories EXCEPT: