How Wood Buildings Benefit Workers, Employers and Building Owners

Mass timber is the next big step in green buildings. The benefits of mass timber include its ease of construction,light carbon footprint, positive effects on human health and well-being, and better organizational performance.This research is summarized in my report on Wood, Well-being and Performance: The Human and OrganizationalBenefits of Wood Buildings.Increasingly, employers recognize that promoting employee well-being ultimately contributes to humanlysustainable improvements in business performance. Mounting evidence now highlights how the physical workspacecontributes to organizational performance when employees are healthier and more engaged.Wood is one of the few natural building materials that can simultaneously achieve four important goals: reducedcarbon emissions; increased sustainability in a building’s life cycle; improved occupant well-being; and increasedorganizational benefits from having happier, healthier and more productive employees.Corporate sustainability strategies are starting to align with human resource goals. ‘Green human resourcemanagement’ is an emerging trend. This views employers’ sustainability actions and branding as useful forachieving their employee recruitment, retention, and engagement goals. Employers who adopt wood as the main