ABSTRACT
Mass timber provides an excellent opportunity to incorporate a renewable resource into major structures while creating new architecture and reducing environmental impacts. For most major structures utilizing steel or concrete it takes 20 years for operational carbon emitted to overcome the carbon emissions created at the time of construction. Therefore, considerations for embodied carbon at the time of construction is essential. Through research and creative implementation, timber has become an excellent alternative to more tradition construction materials where carbon is absorbed not just reduced. Finally, aspirations of structures that sequester carbon as well as those that can be used in areas of high seismicity will also be discussed.
