Wood / cross-laminated timber
Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is a robust building material made from layers of wooden planks bonded together into large-scale, prefabricated, solid-engineered wood panels. Lightweight yet very strong, with superior acoustic, fire, seismic, and thermal performance, CLT is also fast and easy to install, generating almost no waste onsite. For these reasons, CLT is proving to be a highly advantageous alternative to conventional materials like concrete, masonry, or steel, especially in multifamily and commercial construction.
Building Green describes cross-laminated timber benefits and its applications.
Carbon Leadership Forum explores how mass timber buildings can be optimized for material efficiency.
Nordic Structures makes cross-laminated timber and glulam using their innovative transformation technology called the Enviro-Lam process.
ScienceDirect examines the innovation potential of wood constructions for their sustainability and efficiency.
Wood / solid & veneer
Wood, derived from timber and sourced as solid planks or veneers, has proven to be a staple across cultures, generations, and applications including tools, building and boat construction, furniture making, musical instruments, flooring, and more. With properties that range from hard to soft, and figured to plain, wood is a proven and valued low-carbon material.
Climate Smart Wood offers a searchable resource directory for FSC-certified solid wood and wood veneer.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) sets standards for responsible forest management and certified products.
Garnica explores PERF and FSC wood certifications and commitments to sustainable forestry management practices.
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PERF) maintains comprehensive databases to ensure easy access to relevant information about certificate holders, logo & label users, certified products, accredited certification bodies, and PEFC-endorsed national certification schemes.
Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) offers a reliable supply of carbon-absorbing, naturally renewable building solutions.
Wood / renewable composites
Composites are designed to reduce dependence on fossil fuels by minimizing the use of petroleum-based binding agents. Such materials are made from renewable and sustainable sources of wood fibers, such as recycled wood, agricultural residues, or fast-growing timber species.
Lab Manager describes the renewable wood composite development goals to replace fossil-based materials.
Paperstone laminate composites are made from recycled paper and phenolic resin in rich, natural colors. FSC and NSF certified.
Strong by Form has developed Woodflow, a fabrication technology that follows the natural form functions of trees. Their proprietary additive manufacturing process can create high-performance, ultralight, timber-based structural composites for the construction and mobility industries at a fraction of their environmental impact. They create lightweight structural solutions that fuse the sustainability of wood with the performance and productivity of advanced composites.
Wool / renewable & biodegradable
Wool is a natural animal fiber often associated with sheep, yet wool is also sourced from Angora and Cashmere goats, camel, alpaca, llama, yak, vicuña, possums, rabbits, and more. Due to wool's natural performance properties, it provides a renewable, non-toxic, and biodegradable alternative to synthetic materials. Moreover, wool is widely used across applications from clothing to building insulation, flooring, and interior sound-dampening solutions.
Designtex manufactures 2 mm thick, 100% wool felt for upholstery, wallcovering, and window-covering applications. The material is low in VOCs, has no Antimicrobials, Flame Retardants, or PFAS, and ships carbon neutral from its German origin to customers’ sites.
Fibershed connects brands and designers to farmers and ranchers who raise natural fiber with land stewardship practices that regenerate soil carbon.
FilzFelt manufactures felt from Merino wool which is a natural fiber and rapidly renewable resource that is 100% biodegradable.
