An interview with Academician Bruno Andersons.

(...) ...the biggest mistake is to emphasise any single property of a material – they must be assessed in a complex way. One such complex approach, under the influence of the “green approach” and, even more so, the “European Green Deal”, is life cycle inventory and life cycle assessment of a product. These methods provide a comprehensive evaluation of a material's environmental impact from the growth of the tree to the disposal of waste wood. Compared to other materials, the undoubted advantages of wood are its renewable resource properties; furthermore, undamaged wood from demolished construction sites can be reused for other products without being burned and releasing CO2 into the environment, which is important from the perspective of reducing CO2 emissions. The longer we use wood and the more massive the constructions (tables, walls, building structures), the longer (for centuries) the CO2 is sequestered within the wood. Wood has two significant disadvantages: it is a combustible material and is subject to the influence of abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Both can be significantly reduced or limited through appropriate means and structural solutions.