Industry collaboration needed to benefit from large-scale timber construction
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Adam Parkes assesses the factors that are limiting the use of timber in large-scale buildings and urges that these must be overcome to help reduce the carbon footprint of the industry.
This article is part of a new series, Timber 2020/2021 Industry Yearbook Online.
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