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Get the assurances you’re looking for when it comes to specifying sustainable wood products with our new easy-to-search tool. Build outdoor sanctuaries with wood for your next residential client. And discover how design firms from Los Angeles to Philadelphia are tackling climate change and social issues in this month’s featured continuing education course (CEU).

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Have Questions About the Sustainability of Wood Products? Think Wood has Answers.

From healthy forests and carbon cutting to building construction and ribbon cutting, Think Wood’s new Sustainable Specification Resources is your go-to hub of content spanning the entire life cycle of timber buildings—from harvest to highrise. Explore easy-to-navigate resources including articles, whitepapers, continuing education courses, and peer-reviewed research to learn more about how wood products can help reach the sustainable goals of your next project—and of the built environment.

Online Education

Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future

Design teams are facing unprecedented change: from rapid technological changes to the grim truth of the global climate crisis. This course examines four design approaches in a rapidly changing world: incorporating greenspace; community building and placemaking; lowering building carbon footprints; and designing for density and affordability.

Wood at Home

Three Wood Projects That Create Private Outdoor Sanctuaries

Gorgeous, privacy-granting wood projects like fences, accessory dwelling units (ADUs), and shade structures can transform even a small yard into a personal retreat. Check out these inspiring projects to learn how you can add beauty, livability, and value to your clients' own backyards.

In the News

• Japanese Architect Kengo Kuma Unveils Luxe-Miami Tower
  Wood features heavily in the conceptual design of this 18-story luxury residential project, including timber pillars and a striking wooden lattice.

• NBC News Asks: “Is Wood the New Revolution in the Construction Industry?”
  To answer that question they delve into a 2021 study that shows mass timber could reduce a building’s carbon emissions 22–50% compared to concrete.

• Distinctive Winged Timber Roof Adds Warmth to a Starkly Modern Lake House
  Desai Chia Architecture crisscrossed engineered Douglas fir lumber to support a vaulted ceiling for this impressive home on Copake Lake in upstate New York.

• Milwaukee's Wooden Tower Is World's Tallest Mass Timber Hybrid Building
  The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has officially declared the recently completed Ascent tower by Korb + Associates Architects the world’s tallest timber-concrete hybrid building.

• Chicago to Get Tallest Timber Tower Since Before the “Great Fire” of 1871
  A Chicago developer plans a nine-story mass timber building for the Lincoln Park neighborhood on the western edge of the Windy City. Construction is set to begin next year.

In Case You Missed It

Timber-Built Townhouses Rewrite the Rules of the Typical Family Home

Find out how Portland, Oregon’s Wilson Forest Park Townhomes are shaking off the conventions of suburban single-family living—from design and location to materials and performance—all in exchange for affordability, energy savings, flexibility, and intergenerational living.

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