COTE: Zero Carbon Future, The Next Generation of All-Wood Buildings

OPAL Architects Matt O'Malia and Timothy Lock will present current projects that explore the benefits and opportunities of all wood construction and how that approach can have a positive impact on the climate.

To make a meaningful contribution to solving the climate crisis, building materials must not only reduce operational energy use, but also arrive at the jobsite with a radically reduced carbon footprint. Because wood sequesters carbon, wood products have the potential not only to zero out their carbon debt, but actually to run a positive balance, sequestering more CO2 than they contribute in their manufacture and shipping.