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A New Report Predicts Significant Demand Growth for Mass Timber Components
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Building Design + Construction, July 5, 2020
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Last year, contractors used mass timber to construct an estimated 78 buildings in the U.S., representing 4 million square feet of space. A comprehensive new report on the North American mass timber market projects that the number of mass timber buildings could double every two years. By 2034, there would be new demand for 12.9 billion board feet of lumber that would require the establishment of nearly 77 million acres of new forestland.
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