Timber Skyscrapers: A Low-Carbon Typology for the 21st Century
Wood skyscrapers offer the construction industry an innovative way in collectively designing for climate change and rapid urbanization.
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Wood skyscrapers offer the construction industry an innovative way in collectively designing for climate change and rapid urbanization.
Wood skyscrapers offer the construction industry an innovative way in collectively designing for climate change and rapid urbanization.
New Land Enterprises is leasing up Ascent MKE, the tallest mass timber building in the world at 25 stories, in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
New Land Enterprises is leasing up Ascent MKE, the tallest mass timber building in the world at 25 stories, in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
ORE THAN half the world’s population dwell in cities, and by 2050 the UN expects that proportion to reach 68%. This means more homes, roads and other infrastructure. In India alone, the equivalent of a city the size of Chicago will have to be developed every year to meet demand for housing. Such a construction boom does, though, bode ill for tackling climate change, because making steel and concrete, two of the most common building materials, generates around 8% of the world’s anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions. If cities are to expand and become greener at the same time, they will h...