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SUSTAINABILITY Prefabrication helps optimise material use and model adaptive structures that can be deconstructed, modified and reassembled Cross-laminated timber GREEN CONSTRUCTION MEETS PREFABRICATION What unites these technologies is the potential to combine climate benefits with the shift towards off-site construction and prefabrication, where the planning, design, manufacturing and partial assembly of building elements occur at a location other than the final building site. Many of the manufacturers that offer buildings made from biobased materials are, in fact, a new class of technology start-ups that are backed by large investors. Prefabrication helps optimise material use and model adaptive structures that can be deconstructed, modified and reassembled, thereby reducing the need for virgin resources. This provides companies with flexibility in planning for the long-term use of their office buildings, sales stores, warehouses and factories, without having to think about demolishing a structure. LIMITATIONS OF BIOBASED BUILDING MATERIAL Biobased building materials have their limitations. Harnessing their environmental potential requires that they are sourced from sustainable supply chains. From a climate perspective, building wooden office towers with timber can be counterproductive if large amounts of carbon dioxide are emitted in the logging, transport and manufacture of wood products. A company may also ask whether new buildings are needed in the first place. After all, the lowest carbon footprint is that of a building that is never constructed. Companies may consider using biobased building materials in retrofitting and remodelling existing offices or factories instead of building new ones. Serial retrofit initiatives, of the kind spearheaded by governments in Europe and suggested for Canada, already funnel capital into the scale-up of industries for prefabricated building technologies, like facades made from wood and recycled materials. Ultimately, as with all corporate environmental strategies, simply introducing biobased products and materials to the company, be it in office buildings or elsewhere, without having resources in place to monitor their environmental efficacy, for example, in procurement, installation and use, can backfire. THE FUTURE OF BIOBASED BUILDING MATERIALS Building materials can play a key role when considered as a part of a broader strategy in companies’ efforts to reach net-zero emissions. Over 450 firms around the world have already pledged to finance the transition to net-zero emissions by 2050. The issue of materials in construction is gaining attention on a global scale as well. With more than 130 events focused on the built environment at the COP26 summit in November 2021, buildings received more attention than ever. That being said, biobased products and materials will require even more attention going forward. A likely bottleneck in assessing when and how to use biobased building materials will be just how quickly industries normalise the use of lifecycle costing tools, such as whole life carbon accounting. Progress on the adoption of these tools has been slow, but the recent signing of whole life carbon requirements by 44 large companies offers hope that the time for net-zero carbon buildings may indeed be ripe. WIA This article was first published on The Conversation’s website and is reproduced here with permission. 34 WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE • ISSUE 1 – 2022
SUSTAINABILITY Wood for good: Mass timber can reduce construction phase emissions by 69% By Ken Hickson we found that substituting conventional building materials for mass timber reduces construction phase emissions by 69%, an average reduction of 216kg CO2e/m 2 of floor area.” The research study entitled “Wood buildings as a climate solution”, by Austin Himes and Gwen Busby of the Mississippi State University Department of Forestry in the US, found that analysis was “unanimous in showing emissions reductions when building with mass timber compared to conventional materials”. So, scaling up low-carbon construction, assuming mass timber is substituted for conventional building materials in half of expected new urban construction, could provide as much as 9% of the global emissions reduction needed to meet 2030 targets for keeping global warming below 1.5°C. SCION Innovation Hub by RTA Studio/Irving Smith Architects in New Zealand, which won the Best Use of Certified Timber Prize “Wood for good” is no longer an idle wish. It lighting, also known as operational emissions, is a vital move for the planet if we are going to and the harder to eliminate emissions seriously cut emissions and attain net zero by associated with the extraction, processing 2030. and manufacturing of building products, or embodied emissions. We know that the built environment is responsible for 40% of global emissions. This The world is finally waking up to this, and is confirmed by the World Green Building backed up by science, we now know that Council, a non-profit of businesses and timber construction can be the single most organisations working in the building and important way to cut emissions. construction industry. A 2020 report in Developments in the Built Emissions come from the energy we consume Environment by Elsevier showed that: “Based within buildings for heating, cooling and on 18 comparisons across four continents, Driven by Green Building Councils and enterprising timber companies and supported by the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), we are seeing a remarkable and welcome move to timber construction in Asia-Pacific, as well as in Europe and the Americas. When we announced in September 2021 that it was good enough that six of the eight finalists for the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Best Use of Certified Timber Prize — awarded by PEFC — were for projects in the Asia-Pacific, we reported that “there is also been a big boost for mass engineered timber (MET) by architects and builders in the region, most notably in Japan, Australia and Singapore”. WOOD IN ARCHITECTURE • ISSUE 1 – 2022 35
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