Hot take · 1:07:48
// THE QUOTE
“number two the financial and the insurance industry do not fund or insure wood structures in the same way”
— Tom Emodi, FRAIC, LEED AP · TEAL Architects+Planners
The real barrier to tall wood isn't safety or material — it's financing and insurance treating wood worse than steel/concrete despite the data. Pointed, regionally credible.
Full episode at 1:07:48Going Fully Virtual in Architecture: How TEAL Architects Shut Their Studio, Saved Tens of Thousands, and Built a Better Team | Tom Emodi ▸
THE LESSON THIS CLIP CARRIES
The primary barrier to mass timber construction above four storeys in Atlantic Canada is not material performance or climate — it is financing and insurance industry bias against wood structures.
“the financial and the insurance industry do not fund or insure wood structures in the same way as they fund and ensure concrete and steel”
THE CHAPTER IT LIVES IN
Mass Timber Barriers and Wrap-Up
1:05:00
Clips like this, every two weeks.
SOURCE: 1:07:48 of Going Fully Virtual in Architecture: How TEAL Architects Shut Their Studio, Saved Tens of Thousands, and Built a Better Team | Tom Emodi