Special Report: Mass Timber On The Rise

By Brynn Shaffer
The Los Angeles Business Journal
January 20, 2025
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: United States, US West

LOS ANGELES — Amid rising surface temperatures and an ongoing climate crisis, scientists and architects alike are working hard to think of creative ways to reduce carbon emissions when it comes to the building sector – which is responsible for roughly 37% of total greenhouse emissions, according to the World Economic Forum. This in part has manifested a rise of mass timber projects across the globe. …“We’re looking for solutions to reduce our carbon impact and timber, wood, is the lowest embodied carbon product,” James Donaldson, a partner at Elysian Park-based architecture firm Johnson Fain, said. “And if you can reduce the embodied carbon of a building, you’re forever locking down its carbon footprint.” …Chinatown welcomed one of the first and largest hybrid CLT buildings in Los Angeles, 843 N. Spring St., when developer Redcar Properties Ltd. unveiled the five-story property in August. 

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