I wanted to post a quick belated note about the Timber frame presence at Greenbuild in Boston last year. It’s old news with Greenbuild Phoenix now on the horizon but still relevant. It’s easy to forget with the loud and much publicized arguments against logging and deforestization that wood is indeed a very sustainable option for a building material. With sustainable harvesting practices and sensitive control measures our forests can provide us with a valuable resource generation after generation. Being ingrained in the log and timber industry I’ll admit that I was surprised to see both Riverbend Timber Framing and Hugh Lofting Timber Frame at Greenbuild 2008. The surprise was not that it was inappropriate, there are obvious reasons for their exposure there, it just caught me off guard to see something so familiar amidst the endless booths of porous asphalt and green roofs. I hope both of these companies had some beneficial exposure and leads from the conference. It looks like Riverbend Timber Framing will be at this Greenbuild 2009 in Phoenix and a quick look doesn’t show any log or timber frame competition. I would imagine some migration of these vendors to the West Coast Green expo which is in San Francisco this year. This expo, in my opinion is more geared to the residential market.
A lot of people don’t know this but videos of some of the speakers at both expos are archived, a great way to catch up on some inspiring people.
Check them out, try to attend, you are sure to learn a lot.
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