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Is wood an energy-efficient building material?

April 26, 2017building energy-efficient material wood

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Is wood an energy-efficient building material?

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According to the Temperate Forest Foundation, wood is 16 times more efficient as an insulator than concrete, 415 times as efficient as steel and 2,000 times as efficient as aluminum. And wood is the only truly sustainable resource as forests are able to regenerate themselves within our lifetimes.