We are bombarded with media stories and “public health” activist groups that claim we are living in a toxic soup, unavoidably exposed to unsafe chemicals found in products and materials that we regularly use and rely upon. 

 According to the Statistical Review of World Energy, human beings consumed the equivalent of 132,000 terawatt hours (TWh) of energy in the year 2008.  

Wood products represent a high percentage of all construction waste, as much as two thirds by some estimates, cast-in-place concrete formwork accounting for the majority of this.