-Every timber frame home we build saves about 4 tonnes of carbon dioxide (about the same amount produced by driving 14,000 miles). If all new houses built in the UK since 1945 had been timber frame, then more than 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would have been saved.

-This means significant carbon savings in the home's day to day use, as well as financial benefits from lower running costs. A timber frame home is a warm, comfortable & safe place in which to live - and what more could you ask from a home that is also helping to reduce your carbon footprint.

-The more wood we use, the more our forests grow. In Europe we plant more trees than we harvest. Every year our forests grow by over 3,500 square miles - equivalent to an area the size of Cyprus.

-Mature trees, however, absorb far less carbon dioxide & produce less oxygen than those at earlier stages of growth. So the harvesting of older trees for construction purposes,, & their replacement saplings - two planted for every one harvested in Scandinavian forests - ensures a constant cycle of CO2 absorption & oxygen production.

-Wood is effectively a carbon-neutral material (even allowing for transport). Timber Frame has the lowest CO2 cost of any commercially available building material. Strength for strength, concrete uses five times(& steel six times) more energy to produce than timber.