Wood is brilliant, in many ways!
Forests help stabilizing our climate
- Carbon dioxide (CO2), better known as greenhouse gas is a toxin, climate pollutant or perhaps something important?
- Trees like sweets – just as everyone does. Trees make their sweets them self and they prefer dextrose.
- Can you believe, each kilogram of wood lowers the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere by 1.65 kilograms of CO2?
- Had you thought, that Australia’s forests grow enough wood to produce 1.3 tonnes of lumber each second.
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Wood is a natural source of energy
- Wood is a renewable resource and all areas harvested in Australia are regrown.
- Timber can bind carbon for several hundreds of years and once it cannot be used anymore it is still a source of energy.
- An amazing amount of 5.5 kWh of pure energy is stored in every kilogram of wood.
- By using timber instead of other building materials, the CO2 content of the air can even be further reduced.
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Timber is an excellent building material
- Timber can reduce the energy consumption during the construction, the operation and maintenance of buildings.
- Timber is strong, it can carry 14 times the load that steel is able to carry and at the same time it is resistant like reinforced concrete.
- Wood is easy to maintain, persistent and functional. Wood is a natural product that smells good, sounds good and feels good.
- Timber structures are weather resistant, withstand fire attacks and earthquakes.
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