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One in 15 Vancouverites works in the “green economy” according to the Vancouver Economic Comission. Green building is the largest and fastest growing sector. @VanEconomic @greenestcity @PassiveHouseCan @the_iPHA 
“We’re a timber practice,” @mgarchitecture tells @VanEconomic. “About 90 percent of our work is mass timber. About 9% is light wood.”
“Canada is a timber culture... but the world of wood is changing. Mass timber is opening up new ways to build tall buildings.” @mgarchitecture
Humanity will build one NYC worth of buildings per month for the next 40 years. The embodied GHG emissions from constructing these buildings will offset other attempts to limit GHG emissions. This is why wood matters. @mgarchitecture
“One ton of C02 is stored in one cubic meter of wood.” @mgarchitecture
“The difference in carbon emissions between building this one small building (at @UNBC)in concrete and building it in wood is about 88%” @mgarchitecture
Timber Online Education offers courses is mass-wood design & construction. @mgarchitecture @VanEconomic @PassiveHouseCan
Vancouver plans to reduce embodied carbon emissions by 40% as part of The Six Big Moves in response to #ClimateEmergencyNow declared by @greenestcity, explains Patrick Enright. @VanEconomic @WoodWORKSBC_CWC @WoodWorksbc @the_iPHA
“We do all our projects in wood. We do life-cycle assessment on nearly every project. And we try to design every project to Passive House.” Michael Green of @mgarchitecture tells @VanEconomic forum. @katerrainc @naphnetwork @the_iPHA @PassiveHouseCan
