Industry Events

This inaugural webinar in the Climate Smart Wood Group Webinar series will cover the origins, current resources, and future objectives of the Climate Smart Wood Group. It will provide a high level overview of CSWG’s definitions of climate smart wood and climate smart forestry (CSF), followed by a deeper dive Northwest Natural Resource Group’s work promoting CSF among landowners in western Washington.

Join Women in Forest Management for their inaugural conference event, a gathering designed to advance, connect, and inspire professionals across forestry and natural resources.

As the AEC community cultivates wood supply chain transparency and pushes for traceability of end products to origins, it is imperative that we are aligned on both why it’s important and the mechanics of disclosure.  A consistent ask of supply chain partners is important to growing the demand for wood supply chain transparency in sustainable ways that provide value to its many layers.  This presentation will focus on key definitions around different levels of disclosure and tools being developed to help project teams integrate traceability and transparency goals into the design and procurement process.

Procuring climate smart wood can be challenging, and a one-size-fits all solution rarely fulfills project needs. Project teams can utilize multiple credible pathways to meet both project level procurement requirements and carbon goals. This presentation will introduce the three options for climate smart wood procurement developed by the Climate Smart Wood Group, with expert speakers on each: 1) Recycled, reclaimed and re-used wood resulting from salvage, reclamation and re-use; 2) Certified wood products from a credible forest certification system, and 3) Intentional Sourcing of Climate Smart Wood, involving identification of, and sourcing wood from, non-certified forestry operations whose management practices reflect climate-smart criteria, such as increased carbon storage, ecological integrity and social benefit.

The International Mass Timber Conference is the largest gathering of mass timber experts in the world, focusing on the entire industry supply chain. This is our 10th annual event in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Explore cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber, glulam, mass plywood panels, dowel-laminated timber, and laminated veneer lumber; and the opportunities and obstacles in global design, construction, development, manufacturing, and more.

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This presentation will build on the previous webinar about traceability & transparency by focusing on project case studies and their wood supply chain journeys. Case studies will focus on why their clients went down the transparency route, what levels they achieved, and the key challenges each team faced at different phases of the design process.  Lessons learned will be presented with a focus on how sourcing transparency supported claims around ecological benefits, community economic development, and climate change impacts.