I would love to echo the concern about the standards in which one standard really looks at, the LEED standard looks at energy conservation at the point and therefore discriminates against wood, where if you look at the life cycle of wood versus concrete and steel, you find significant life cycle savings.
Merkley discusses the LEED standard's bias against wood in energy conservation.
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