Presenter: Yanel de Angel, FAIA, Principal at Perkins&Will, co-founder of resilientSEE-PR

Round Panel - Wood on a Mission: Combining carbon benefits, housing, and humanitarian response.

resilientSEE-PR presented ‘Why Not Wood?’, an alternative perspective on the benefits of wood construction in Puerto Rico: carbon sequestration to combat climate change; material ductility behavior during the January 2020 earthquake event; tying to a 500-year-old tradition of wood construction in the Island; and material affordability for residential construction.