Context

For thousands of years, wood was the most widely used resource by humans: tools, toys, weapons, and also to build shelters, houses, churches, and even infrastructure such as bridges and dams.

With the Industrial Revolution, concrete and steel were developed on a massive scale, materials that, due to their resistance, managed to replace wood in more and more tasks and functions.

Currently, the construction industry is one of the most backward in terms of innovation, and one of the most polluting in the world, not only because of the amount of CO₂ it emits into the atmosphere, but also because of the waste it generates.

Although the concrete and steel industries have made significant efforts to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, it is not possible to eliminate them completely. This is where wood comes into play and presents a universe of opportunities and improvements for builders, investors, and above all, for users.

Globally, the construction sector has four main impacts on the environment:

• The use of a large amount of materials, where between 40-50% of them are used in the design and construction of buildings.
• The extraction, transfer, and transformation of these materials.
• A large energy consumption during the use of buildings.
• It is one of the industries with the most waste in terms of volume, where, for example, about 70.5 million tons of wood are discarded per year, and where only a third of this waste is recycled.