Sandra Frank

Also in this podcast. While a tree grows, it consumes carbon dioxide and it stores it in the tree for as long as these buildings are standing. Why Europe's construction industry is turning to wood to cut carbon emissions.

I'm Sandra Frank and I'm one of the founding partners at Arvet. Developers in Sweden and we only develop in wood or wooden buildings. Arvet built the world's first eight-story apartment block entirely out of engineered wood. Sandra asked the factory how long that would take to grow. And they said 44 seconds. I realized that we didn't question using concrete or steel.

which is also materials that you take from the nature, but it never grows back. While a tree grows, it consumes carbon dioxide, and it stores it in the tree for as long as these buildings are standing. Amma's a hundred-year-old law in Sweden, saying every tree cut down must be replaced. And today we are planting about four trees for each tree that you take down.