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Forestry Community: Unlocking Timber’s Potential in Construction

Timber construction is gaining ground across Europe as a low-carbon, healthy, and financially competitive solution. Still, many investors and developers see cost, scale, and risk as barriers. Built by Nature’s framework, shaped through collaboration with industry leaders and five funded projects, distills the business case for timber and identifies pathways to scale. It equips architects and designers with the insights to champion timber as a mainstream material—transforming both buildings and the future of construction.

Strategies for Forestry Community

Phase 5 Operation, maintenance & end-of-life

Strategy 5.3 Measure and share outcomes to improve industry practice

Systematically measuring and sharing project outcomes strengthens transparency, accountability, and learning across the timber construction economy. By collecting and publishing data on carbon performance, durability, cost, and user experience, project teams contribute to a growing evidence base that demonstrates the real-world benefits of responsible timber design and delivery. Open reporting supports benchmarking against whole life cycle and ESG frameworks, helping to refine standards, guide policy, and attract sustainable investment. Sharing insights – both successes and challenges – encourages collaboration among developers, designers, contractors, and cities, accelerating innovation and improving confidence in mass timber and biobased construction. This strategy creates a positive feedback loop where practice informs progress, enabling the industry to continually raise the bar for transparent, and regenerative building performance that meets evolving market and policy expectations.

Actions

Principles included in this strategy
  • Promoting a timber building bioeconomy

Actions for Forestry Community

Phase 5 Strategy 5.3 Forestry Community

Participate in industry-wide benchmarking or open-source databases for timber performance

Tools and Guidance
Principles included in this strategy
  • Promoting a timber building bioeconomy

Phase 5 Strategy 5.3 Forestry Community

Participate in industry-wide benchmarking or open-source databases for timber performance. Share lessons learned with industry networks and peers to advance collective understanding of responsible timber delivery

Tools and Guidance
Principles included in this strategy
  • Promoting a timber building bioeconomy