In a groundbreaking new report, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Building with Biomass: A New American Harvest highlights a powerful opportunity to transform America’s construction industry—and its future. By turning locally sourced, upcycled biomass into high-performance building materials, we can simultaneously create jobs, provide more affordable housing, and tackle climate change head-on with carbon negative building solutions.
The report shows that bio-based materials like wood fiber insulation like TimberBoard and TimberBatt don’t just perform well—they actively reduce greenhouse gas emissions by locking carbon into our buildings. With abundant agricultural and forestry byproducts available across the U.S., the potential is enormous. Instead of letting this biomass go to waste, we can use it to fuel rural economies, create manufacturing jobs, and reduce wildfire risks.
Even better, these natural materials fit perfectly into the growing trend of prefabricated and modular construction—making homes cheaper, faster to build, and more sustainable.
Building with Biomass paints an inspiring picture of how a new “harvest” from America’s fields and forests could reshape the way we build—cleaner, greener, and stronger than ever before.
Source: https://www.timberhp.com/timberhp-featured-in-rmis-building-with-biomass-a-new-american-harvest
Beth Gentry is an American author and writer based in Boulder, Colorado. Her novels, which often explore themes of nature, family, and personal journeys, have received critical acclaim and won prestigious awards. Gentry’s short stories have been published in renowned literary journals, and she has also taught creative writing courses at the university level. Gentry holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder.
