Timber!

How Wood Can Help Save the World from Climate Breakdown

Paul Brannen

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Agenda Publishing
27 June 2024

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Global warming; Sustainability; Timber & wood processing; Building construction & materials

The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well-known. Why then are we not using more carbon-friendly building materials? In a passionate and compelling argument Paul Brannen advocates the use of timber in buildings wherever possible. His controversial and counterintuitive argument is clear: planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon, we also have to chop them down and use more wood in our buildings and cities.

This is the first book to take timber from the margins to the mainstream, from the forests to the cities. The book tackles head-on questions about sustainability, safety, the biodiversity of commercial forests and the pressures on land use. The case for timber as a construction material is compellingly made - the creation of new engineered timbers with the structural strength of steel and concrete enable us for the first time to build wooden skyscrapers - and draws on the latest developments in engineering and material science. Rather than the familiar forestry models, the book advocates alternatives such as wood farming and agroforestry that are more sustainable.

With the built environment currently responsible for 40 per cent of the world's carbon emissions, Brannen's message is unequivocal: we must change how we build. Timber! offers fresh and inventive ideas that over time could see our expanding cities storing more carbon than our expanding forests.

By: Paul Brannen
Imprint: Agenda Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 18mm
ISBN: 9781788217354
ISBN 10: 1788217357
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 27 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Brannen is Director of Public Affairs for the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries and the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry and he also works for Timber Development UK. He is a former MEP and is a regular media contributor on environmental issues.

Reviews for Timber!: How Wood Can Help Save the World from Climate Breakdown

Timber! should be read by all those in planning, housing policy, construction and agriculture, and many more besides. Paul Brannen does a fabulous job of showing how feasible and beneficial it would be if we not only sequestered carbon through growing trees, but then locked it up in our buildings and insulation for many decades to come. With innovations like agroforestry on the one hand, and glulam on the other, it's easily within our grasp to grow and use more wood, with multiple benefits for society, not least to more rapidly solve our housing shortage through modular timber based buildings. -- Helen Browning, Chief Executive, Soil Association Timber! is a passionate and thought-provoking manifesto for the much bigger role wood and forestry could play in tackling the climate crisis and improving the built environment. It packs in a good deal of fact and analysis, as well as some controversial opinions, but always in an engaging way. I may never be as evangelical about timber as Paul Brannen, but I am now much better informed. -- Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance How good is wood? Paul Brannen's engaging and accessible book explains how building materials that are grown instead of mined can change buildings from being a climate problem to part of the solution. -- Lloyd Alter, author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle