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Embodied Carbon Accounting for Wood Construction Has Specific Methodological Issues That Matter

The carbon advantage of wood construction is real but is more methodologically contested than the popular framing suggests. The specific issues affect…

Erik Larsen May 9, 2026 7 min read

Construction

CLT Moisture Management Has Become the Dominant Field Engineering Question

The field engineering questions that absorbed mass timber design teams five years ago — connection detailing, fire engineering, code interpretation — have…

Erik Larsen May 9, 2026 6 min read

Economics

Mass Timber's Cost Premium Has Compressed Substantially. Here's What Actually Happened.

Five years ago mass timber construction carried a premium of fifteen to twenty-five percent over comparable steel or concrete buildings. The premium…

Erik Larsen May 9, 2026 6 min read