Transparency Pledge Letter
Interest in mass timber and wood construction has never been higher, and with that excitement comes an opportunity to better understand, communicate, and celebrate the impacts that this material selection is having on the forests and communities that make it possible.
SIGNATORIES
Arrowstreet | Bassetti Architects | Bora Architecture & Interiors | Boulder Associates | Brockman Climate Strategies LLC | CannonDesign | Chapman Construction / Design | DiMella Shaffer | EHDD | EUA | Handel Architects | HED | Henning Larsen | Holst Architecture | Integrus | isgenuity | Joshua | Kirksey Architecture LakelFlato Architects | LEVER | Magnusson Architecture and Planning | Mahlum Architects | Miron COnstruction Co., Inc. | Mithun | Moseley Architects | MSR Design | OPN Architects | Orcutt Winslow | Payette | Sasaki | SERA | Shawmut Design & Construction | Stantec Architecture | Studio Gang | The Miller Hull Partnership | Webcor Builders | WRNS Studio | ZGF
Sustainable Northwest (SNW) is committed to natural resource solutions that support the health of our forests and communities. We hold that deepening communication and transparency in-and-across our forest and construction sectors is foundational to this work, and that our forests and wood products have a good story to tell. By illuminating and celebrating our diverse landscape of forest owners, management practices and outcomes—including those that achieve above-and-beyond ecological and socio-economic value—we elevate the sector as a whole and demonstrate our commitment to stewardship values.
On behalf of the coalition, we invite you to review the pledge letter and signatories.
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To this end, SNW has engaged with an emerging coalition of sustainability leaders in the architectural community and has agreed to host, on their behalf, the first draft of a “Transparency Pledge Letter” to mass timber manufacturers.
This letter is intended to be the beginning of a dialogue that builds processes and pathways, and strives to avoid “always”,“must”, and “never” language. Instead, it seeks to highlight the construction sector’s growing appetite for data and transparency, and the proactive desire to work with the forest sector to meet this need. This letter also reflects ongoing efforts of the coalition to build transparency tools that aim to serve as a starting point for a more standardized and less burdensome reporting process. The coalition seeks input from both the manufacturing and construction sectors to refine these tools and implement them.
