Wednesday 03 March
11.00 - 12.30 - Kensington Room

If I were to invent a "Solar powered carbon dioxide sucking machine that stores energy in a beautiful building material" I'd be rich. But Nature beat me to it. They're called trees and they give us wood."  - Peter Moonen, Canadian Wood Council.

Sustainably managed forests and wood products offer a great potential to ease our transition away from a fossil-fuel based economy, namely because of their carbon sequestration properties. Healthy growing forests not only naturally recycle carbon; they provide products that meet society's demand for timber, fibre and energy.

This workshop will demonstrate how climate change can be mitigated through sustainable forestry practices and the use of wood as a preferable building material. An approach to assessing the carbon offset potential of building products will be proposed. Various examples of innovative applications of wood and engineered wood products in large building designs will be presented.

Mitigation of climate Change through Sustainable Forest Management AND Wood Buildings, by Dr. Robert Beauregard, Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics, Laval University

The (possibly!) European Standard for Carbon Sequestration Applicable to Wood Products in Construction, by John Park, Canada Wood Director of the UK Office and Market Access Coordinator

Attributes of Wood and applications – tying some of it together, by Steven Street, Technical Director, Ontario Wood WORKS!

Wooden Bridge, Nordic Engineered Products.

Richmond Sped Skating Oval

Canadian forests