3.8.2020
Wood is a renewable natural resource
Wood is the only building material whose amount is constantly increasing. By using wood, the consumption of non-renewable materials can be reduced and/or completely avoided. This is particularly significant in construction, where the quantities of material used are great and the replacement of other materials with wood is comparatively easy.
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The consumption of natural resources caused by the manufacture of different building materials separated according to non-renewable and renewable natural resources.In practice, the hidden currents of the consumption of steel-based raw materials are the inert material created in mining the raw materials (Source:Building Information Group RT environmental reports).