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JOURNAL OF FORESTRY
Volume 116, Issue 5, Pages 429-436Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jofore/fvy025
Keywords
mass timber construction; wooden multistory buildings; wooden high-rise buildings; sustainable built environment; public beliefs
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- Oregon Forest Resources Institute
- Oregon Forest Resources Institute, Portland, Oregon, United States
- LPDP/Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education, Ali Wardhana Building 2nd floor, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Grupo Argos S.A., Medellin, Colombia
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Little is known about what the public thinks of tall wood buildings (TWBs), which are structures made primarily from wood that are at least five stories tall. Understanding end-user beliefs can help the industry address public preferences and concerns. An online panel of 502 residents in the Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, metropolitan areas showed that only 19 percent were familiar with TWBs. The largest percentages of respondents believed that, compared with concrete and steel buildings, TWBs are more aesthetically pleasing, create a positive living environment, and use materials that regrow. However, they also believed that TWBs have greater fire risk and need more maintenance. Sizable percentages of respondents said they did not know about various durability, performance, aesthetic, and environmental attributes of TWBs. There were few meaningful differences between respondents who reported being familiar and unfamiliar with TWBs, but those who were familiar evaluated TWBs slightly more positively.
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