Wood Industry Congratulates on Building Code

Media Release

Woodco

6 August 2007

Forest and Wood Industry Congratulate Building Code Direction

Woodco, the pan-industry body representing the forest owner’s, contractors and wood processors, has congratulated the Government for moving toward inclusion of the carbon cost of building materials into the building code.

“If New Zealand is striving for its building practices to be genuinely sustainable and environmentally-minded, then the embedded energy of building materials must be factored into our building decisions. The Government has to be congratulated for this excellent step,” says Woodco Chairman Doug Ducker.

“Wood is the world’s most renewable raw material. It is a superior resource which enhances the natural environment, not only by capturing and storing carbon but also the way it stabilises hillsides and filters nutrients from fouling waterways and rivers.”

“Policies which recognise the true environmental credentials of building products will encourage greater use of wood in both our homes and commercial buildings. That can only enhance New Zealand’s sustainability qualifications and our reputation for being environmentally focused,”says Ducker.

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