A series of comparisons illustrating the upfront embodied car-
bon impacts of different construction solutions
Resources
Timber and Decarbonising Wales
Unlocking climate, economic and social value through afforestation, sustainable forest management and circular wood use
New Tool Empowers Early Design Decisions to Cut Embodied Carbon in Welsh Housing
Discover a free new tool to help housing professionals assess and reduce upfront embodied carbon during the earliest stages of low-rise housing design
Optimising Whole-life Carbon Timber Framers’ Tool and Report
A new report and tool to help timber framers and housing professionals reduce upfront embodied carbon and optimise whole-life carbon in new buildings.
Case Study: Housing
Featuring a ‘timber first’ approach, using home-grown timber and timber products manufactured off-site, the Gwynfaen housing project exemplifies low carbon home construction in Wales
Case Study: Manufacturer
Two Neath Port Talbot organisations working in partnership demonstrates how targeted funding from Welsh Government promotes innovation and collaboration
Case Study: Grower
Collective action secured quality sawlogs for local businesses to process into a range of high-value timber products enabling small sawmillers to add value to the timber supply chain in Wales
Case Study: Tai ar y Cyd
Tai ar y Cyd harnesses the power of 23 Welsh social landlords collaborating to build new zero carbon homes that will unlock wellbeing benefits for families, communities, and local economies
Case Study: Processor
Pontrilas is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for Welsh-grown timber in construction and could be instrumental in supporting Wales’s first Timber Industrial Strategy
Case Study: Circular Economy 1
The UKs longest established manufacturer of wood-based panel products is adopting the three principles of resource circularity – reduce, reuse and recycle – at its north Wales manufacturing plant
