reThink Wood is offering a three day Greenbuild pass ($1,000 value) to one lucky Archinect respondent!
Greenbuild runs from November 14-16 in San Francisco, CA
The pass includes access to plenary sessions, exhibit hall, educational sessions, Opening Keynote & Celebration, Leadership Awards and conference bag.

To enter the competition fill out this quick survey. A winner will be selected at random.

The reThink Wood initiative is a coalition of interests representing North America’s wood products industry and forest landowners, public and private. They share a passion in wood and the forests they come from. Their goal is to educate the building community about the use of wood in buildings.  
Visit them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/rethinkwood  or Twitter: www.twitter.com/rethinkwood   

Join reThink Wood at Greenbuild, at booth 3257N. reThink Wood will be sponsoring a “Building Blocks Competition” where participants are invited to design and build the most innovative structure using a set of wooden building blocks.

reThink Wood will also host a Twitter Q&A from Greenbuild with handles across the industry on Wednesday 11/14 from 11am - 11:30am PST.  Follow the conversation or submit questions using the hashtag #GreenbuildChat.   

In an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment and meet cost objectives, more and more building designers are choosing wood. In Arkansas, the El Dorado School District reduced costs by 4.5% (52.7 million) by using wood framing in a 322.500 square foot school. Wood can be used in buildings from multi-story condos and single-story homes to arenas. and thanks to innovations like crosslaminated timber. parallel strand lumber. glued laminated timber and prefab paneling systems, an even wider range of wood buildings is possible. Wood is also adaptable and easy to use; construction can be undertaken year-round in almost any climate.

Wood also helps designers meet code. The International Building Code was introduced in 2000 and adopted by most US states It has created a more favorable environment for designing wood-frame commercial buildings, and it also offers the convenience of a single code. More importantly. building with wood has a positive environmental impact. Houses with wood-based wall systems require 15% less total embodied energy for manufacturing than thermally comparable houses using steel- or concrete-based building systems. The embodied energy and emissions of structures usually include those associated with obtaining raw materials. manufacturing building materials. transporting materials to construction sites. and building the structures. Over 100 years. net greenhouse gas emissions associated with wood-based houses are 20% to 50% lower than emissions associated with thermally comparable houses using steel- or concrete-based building systems (Upton et al. 2008).

And contrary to popular belief. wood is a renewable resource. In just 60 seconds, US and Canadian forests can grow 17.210 cubic feet of wood-enough to construct a 50,000 square foot bui|ding—and US timberland growth has increased by since 1953. Wood also plays a significant role in the modern economy. Use of forest products in the US supports more than 1 million direct jobs and contributes more than S100 billion to the US Gross Domestic Product.

To enter the competition fill out this quick survey. A winner will be selected at random.