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What Developers Need to Know About Mass Timber
Echo and Hugo, the sustainability and research teams at architecture and design firm Corgan, undertook a joint research initiative to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the carbon emissions associated with mass timber production.
To improve the accuracy of emissions calculations for mass timber, Corgan has developed a tool that accounts for three common slash management methods for seven of the most commonly used species of trees. Designers, specifiers and other architecture, engineering and construction professionals can use this calculator (available at corgan.com/MTcarboncalculator) to refine their carbon emissions estimates for mass timber buildings.
