Could mass timber construction help the housing crisis?

I am living in a wood frame affordable housing apartment complex in western Canada and the noise transfer has lead people to experience a very low quality of life with no solutions in sight. What do you all think about building with earth?

Could mass forest destruction help expand the climate crisis?

Make sure to use the wood with beetles inside technically free to use. $Billions of dollars for Canada to make.

Question everything CBC News reports.😢

Or we could seize all the vacant luxury condos and mark them for downward redistribution¿ why is nobody talking about it. We can use asset forfeiture to simply take the skyboxes. Immediate housing for all.

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If the provinces used effective fire fighting methods it might work but not at the current rate of forestry destruction. If you get rid of trees you remove a major carbon scrubber.

Only the conservatives can fix housing.

How about stop letting over 400,000 people in over 3 months....

no one cares about co2 except left activists and their sponsors.

Instead of killing trees let’s grow hemp instead.

did you see that match drop and the appartment go up in flames. oh wait it hasn't happened yet lol

How do you scream bloody murder out of one side of your mouth in regard to climate while suggesting deforestation out of the other? Trees are a literal carbon capture machine. Oh right, it's because you don't actually believe it.

From the highway just south of Prince George, B.C., you can see the logs, thousands of them, piled neatly in rows.

They were cut from trees in old growth and primary forests in the province's Interior.

This timber won't be used to build homes or furniture, or even to make paper. These logs will be ground and compressed into tiny pellets, shipped to Europe and Asia and burned to produce fuel for electricity.

Britain's largest power plant, Drax Power Station, controls most of B.C.'s pellet production and has ambitious plans to expand operations in Canada. Looks like all the clear cutting we doing is really green and really helping the environment well as long as there is a CARBON TAX WE ARE GOOD RITE !!!!! LOL...................😅

It will not solve the housing crisis. Try and find a skilled carpenter or even a carpenter to build ?????

Get ready to fly lol

Good video related to this: Vox's "How to build a wood skyscraper" (v=2qry7AmdIn8)

Stop killing trees please right now

Find a solution for factory exhausts n stuff

With the advent of mass-timber buildings and bridges, this would be a great time to draft policy solutions to reduce the amount of land we're currently using to grow cattle feed and use that land for sustainably managed forests instead.

yeah, trees take forever to grow :/
Ty FSC

Make a law that allows people to inly own up to three residental properties. Problem solved.

Did something happen to bricks and mortar?

CBC used to be amazing

To solve the housing crisis with mass timber is not a golden bullet that fixes all; the main issue is zoning. If you convert 5% of single family zones or allow conversation of the many empty commercial buildings and given funding to build medium to high density residential units, you could make a serious impact in the housing crisis.
Just converting 5% of single family zoning for medium density zoning will allow developers to build enough units to make housing affordable within cities. For the same land area as 3-4 single family properties, you could build a minimum 20 unit building that could house close to 50 people. Rezoning and amending the zoning laws is one of the ways to solve the housing crisis.

It is called pre-fab, and it has been around for almost 100 years. Laminated wood floors, beams , etc have been around for over 50. Let us solve the housing crisis with math. 100, 000 units for 400,000 people. Just does not add up does it

I appreciate the efforts, news stories and human presentation on this channel. This topic is of interest to me. Unfortunately, the "music" is distracting and makes paying attention difficult. Most of the CBC programs are now inaccessible to me due to the background noise. Can this practice be reassessed?

How about environment problems. Less tree's and less oxygen.

Builders aren’t going to build just to sell houses people can’t afford. Products like laminated veneered lumber cost 3x the price of spruce, pine, fir. (SPF) and mass timber products use more energy to make and produce more greenhouse gases and VOCs than standard lumber.

FSC in canada is irrelevant and pointless

We did a floor every four days in high rise concrete in Canada. You are telling me you're going to do a popsicle stick skyscraper AND do it FASTER than us??!!!

What fire hazard ?

It no good if you use wood to build homes if you cant breath because theirs no oxygen 😢

I would not like to be in that building when thire is a 🔥 fire

Nope...
I know we NEED trees but I am sure this is not what we need the trees for.

Canada should cut down and use all its Mountain Pine Beetle tainted wood in these projects... Two birds, one stone!

Mass Timber will store carbon, and reduces the need for concrete. Concrete production makes up 8% of all carbon emissions. We just need to plant new trees after we cut them down. 😊

What about the Liberal government stop letting a million people into the country a year?

You need a volunteer forest fire team first to prevent massive forest fires in canada

Carpenters must be working too cheaply

How can we build houses when BC has killed the logging industry by turning over all the land to the indigenous

UBC built mass timber housing building named Tallwood in2016 at the height of 18 floors. Toronto just starts to wake up to green technology?

This is a thought provoking video! It’s great to see the potential of mass timber construction being explored as a solution to the housing crisis.