CALGreen's commercial compliance threshold dropped from 100,000 to 50,000 square feet on January 1, 2026, pulling thousands more projects into embodied carbon review just as SB 253's first climate disclosure deadline passed and the EPD standard underneath compliance got its first rewrite in 20 years.
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Six lenses on the low-carbon transition in the built environment.
The emissions locked into materials — and the codes, caps, and LCAs now putting a number on them.
Engineered wood as a carbon-storing structural system, from CLT supply to code adoption.
Green building codes and environmental product declarations, decoded for people who specify.
Where the timber economy meets the carbon market — pricing, projects, and integrity.
Deforestation rules, tariffs, and the trade policy reshaping material sourcing.
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