David Brancaccio

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2,652 appearances 78 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 5 May

David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 78 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 37.

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I got to say more than something.

You're using an unusual construction technique.

Give me a sense of it.

No, I love what Heidi's doing, but it's a lot of concrete for my own tastes.

Concrete requires a lot of carbon dioxide to be spilled to make the stuff.

And I'm looking for something that actually sucks in carbon dioxide.

It's called cross-laminated timber.

We're going to rebuild from wood.

That's surprising.

I know, given the fact that all the wood was consumed on my property.

This is big, thick wood pressed together.

It can be harvested from sustainable forests.

You can get the wood from culling smaller trees to allow the bigger trees to thrive and also to reduce the chance of forest fires.

There's a prefab angle to CLT.

and a small crew can frame in your house, including the ceiling, they say in a week.

And she's asking some of the same questions we're asking here.

How do we build homes that are stronger, smarter, and better suited to the next century?

I'm here to learn about this thing called cross-laminated timber, or CLT.

Let me make sure I got this right.

It's basically regular wood stacked and glued together in crisscross layers.

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