GREEN PLANNING

Underwater Logging
Harvesting flooded forests

Wood
Naturally Renewable and Biodegradable

FSC Certified Wood
Internationally approved harvesting guidelines

Permeable Paving Surfaces
Help to Clean Stormwater Runoff

Timber Frame
A Good Green Choice

Reclaimed Wood
Wood should have 9 lives too

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Wood

Timber frame has a natural advantage in sustainable construction, and already represents the most environmentally friendly commercial building material available.

Wood is naturally renewable, organic and non-toxic.  It requires low energy inputs to harvest, transport and mill, is very easily recycled, and when no longer needed is naturally absorbed back into the earth with no environmental harm.

Steel, aluminum, plastic and concrete are frequently thought of as wood substitutes, and it is often assumed that using these products will help protect our forests. But we cannot grow more iron ore to make steel, bauxite to make aluminum, petroleum to make plastic, or limestone to make concrete. These materials are mined or extracted from the earth, never to be replaced. Even recycled wood substitutes contain large percentages of virgin, nonrenewable materials. Among all the building materials available in the U.S. today, only wood products come from a renewable resource.

Every time we use a product from a nonrenewable resource, we are diminishing the earth's ability to sustain us. Well-managed forests provide the safest, sustainable construction material today