The building sector is a major source of global carbon emissions, while forests—essential to climate stability, biodiversity, and clean water—are increasingly degraded and undervalued by construction markets.
This project advances an implementation-driven solution by linking forest restoration in the northeastern United States with decarbonized building systems based on innovative, robotically fabricated mass timber components.
Through collaborations with forestry scientists, engineers, architects, and industrial ecologists, the project will develop, test, and deploy structural components fabricated from regionally sourced, mixed-species timber harvested through regenerative forest management.
These systems will be incorporated into several building pilots, demonstrating reduced embodied carbon, long-term urban carbon storage, and construction feasibility. If successful, the project will accelerate climate-positive construction while strengthening both rural and urban economies.
