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Due to new timber engineering, designs for timber skyscrapers are coming from all corners of the globe.

“Herein lies a key catalyst for the timber trend’s underlying popularity. The process lends itself to creating highly green buildings when sustainable timber is used in the development process, as is the case in popular timber development concepts around the world.”

“Timber is ideal for green building – it has a lower overall environmental and carbon footprint than other materials and is renewable,” says BSLC executive director Cees de Jager. “Wood is well suited for a broad range of structural and aesthetic applications, is high performance, and, in many cases, is a more economical choice.”

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