Forest professionals in Canada have long played an important role in environmental sustainability. It's part of their education, andpartof theirjobs. Architects, engineers, and contractors have also been making strides to evaluate and reduce environmental impacts - and rightly so. The built environment - eveiytxiing from smgle-family houses to the tallest office towers - accounts for almost 39 percent of total energy use, 12 percent of water consumption, and 68 percent of electricity consumption. Inaddition, there are impacts on the land base that provides building materials such as cement, aggregate, metals, and wood. One of the great challenges for today's forest industry is ensuring that accurate and verifiable environmental information about wood is made available and fully taken into account by the building sector.
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