Just noticed the person thingie there, thank you! A lot of people will be (or should be) shocked by your structural system comparison, particularly since many in the industry claim that mass timber is storing carbon. I am not saying you are wrong in this (and I think many in the industry overstate the carbon savings from mass timber) but your statement "A concrete building can have a lower embodied carbon impact than a wood building." raises some serious questions.
I completely agree Lloyd. These numbers are all taken directly from Ramboll's recent embodied carbon database of actual projects in UK and larger European context. Swapping out wood for another structural system without thought towards the rest of the building won't have massive reductions. Wrap a building in aluminum panels with a wood structure and you won't be further ahead.
Just noticed the person thingie there, thank you! A lot of people will be (or should be) shocked by your structural system comparison, particularly since many in the industry claim that mass timber is storing carbon. I am not saying you are wrong in this (and I think many in the industry overstate the carbon savings from mass timber) but your statement "A concrete building can have a lower embodied carbon impact than a wood building." raises some serious questions.
I completely agree Lloyd. These numbers are all taken directly from Ramboll's recent embodied carbon database of actual projects in UK and larger European context. Swapping out wood for another structural system without thought towards the rest of the building won't have massive reductions. Wrap a building in aluminum panels with a wood structure and you won't be further ahead.