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Professor Hubert Hasenauer: ‘A wooden house makes a better carbon storage than the forest’

15 July 2025

Visiting Helsinki in April Hubert Hasenauer, Professor for Forest Ecosystem Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria, praised the sustainable forest management in Europe and called for the use of wood in construction.

’Our challenge now is to combine forest management with combating climate change, but even so, in connection to this Finland and Europe should not be compared to tropical countries. Our forest management is definitely sustainable. Our tradition goes back to more than a century,’ Hasenauer said in his lecture at a seminar arranged by the Finnish Forest Industries Federation (FFIF).

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WoodWorks Issue – 15 Jul 2025

Welcome

Greetings from your WoodWorks team. First up we look at a house that showcases exposed LVL and TimberSpan portals in a stunning way; then Eel Net structures have us awe-inspired in Melbourne. Our third story takes us to Baltimore and is one for the engineers; and lastly we go to Helsinki where we ponder whether wooden houses make better carbon storage than forests.

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