Embodied carbon data shows lower impact for UK sourced timber

Specification OnLine UK
March 11, 2026
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: International

Timber Development UK (TDUK) has published the 2026 Embodied Carbon data for Timber Products. This provides the average carbon data for the 11 major timber product categories. A fully updated version of the 2025 information, the data allows designers to weigh up the carbon impacts of their material choices. The figures clearly show how selecting a particular timber product will affect the embodied carbon of a design, with many UK sourced timber products having a lower A1-A4 embodied carbon impact than their imported counterparts. This independently verified information calculates weighted average upfront A1-A4 embodied carbon data for all of the most common timber products used in the UK – both including and excluding biogenic carbon, and also includes a stored biogenic carbon figure for the product. The new publication now also includes end-of-life C1-C4 embodied carbon impacts.

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