This months SLB update includes these headlines and more:

• SLB Q2 2024 Report – highlighting the impact of both near-term investments and long-term vision for growing demand and expanding markets for lumber.
• Ten years after architecture firm DLR Group started the first T3 mass timber office building for developer Hines, six T3 buildings have been completed and five more are in design or construction across North America.
• The Concrete Masonry Checkoff, the first checkoff program established for a competing building material, recently launched a national marketing campaign: The Beauty of Block.
• In August, the premiere of a new documentary, “Women of Carbon,” featured women who are leading the effort to decarbonize the built environment.
• The American Wood Council has released three of four regional Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for U.S. softwood lumber. This marks the first time the U.S. lumber industry has developed and published regional EPDs