TED Video: High Rise Wood Buildings
February 24, 2014 | 9:36 pm CST
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Architect Michael Green at a TED conference advocates wood highrise buildings. wood. It's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall, it's necessary to solve architecture’s biggest challenge -- meeting worldwide housing demand without increasing carbon emissions -- by building with carbon-sequestering wood instead of concrete and steel.

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