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Carbon Mitigation Impacts of Increased Softwood Lumber and Structural Panel Use for Nonresidential Construction in the United States

More wood use in the United States to construct low-rise nonresidential (NR) buildings would increase consumption and production of softwood (SW) lumber, engineered wood products, and structural and nonstructural wood panels. Using a consequential life-cycle analysis, we estimated the change in net CO₂ emissions thatwould be caused by increased...

Author(s):

Prakash Nepal; Kenneth E. Skog; David B. McKeever; Richard D. Bergman; Karen L. Abt; Robert C. Abt

Year:

2016

Keywords:

non-residential construction, timber market, net CO2 savings, manufacturing emissions, forest C, harvested wood product C, logging slash C, timber price, market induced investments, consequential life cycle analysis

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Forest Products Journal

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Carbon Mitigation Impacts of Increased Softwood Lumber and Structural Panel Use for Nonresidential Construction in the United States

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