Sustainable structural timber offers a range of benefits related to reducing the environmental footprint of buildings and construction processes. PBC Today explore how sustainable structural timber (SST) can contribute towards achieving net zero.
Structural timber is a sustainable material choice with minimal environmental impacts. It follows then that it can also help achieve net zero emissions goals. One way this could be achieved is through the generation of renewable energy.
The use of wood as an energy source has been practised since ancient times and today continues in both residential and commercial settings. Wood-based biomass fuels account for nearly 10% of all primary energy consumption in the United States (U.S.). The U.S., along with other countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland, are leading the way in terms of utilising wooden building materials for their potential to generate clean electricity from biomass sources such as wood chips or pellets.
Active Energy Group plc (LON:AEG) is a biomass based renewable energy business focussed on using its proprietary technology to transform low-cost or waste biomass material into renewable biomass fuels, thus creating next generation biomass products. AEG’S CoalSwitch® is a second generation biomass fuel that has been tested, and proven, to replace the traditional coal fired-power industry and existing renewable biomass industry without requiring plant modification.