Concern about the impact on global warming from the selective felling of mature trees is unfounded. Growing trees take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen, a process called photosynthesis. However as trees mature, this process slows down and the volumes are significantly reduced. Therefore, the constant harvesting and replanting of trees is more beneficial in reducing carbon dioxide and increasing the supply of oxygen than simply leaving mature trees standing.

The wide scale felling of trees has rightly been brought to the attention of the public in recent years as millions of acres of forest are chopped annually in parts of the world. When large tracts of land are entirely cleared it leads to soil erosion, changes in water levels and obliteration of wildlife habitat. However, the selective felling of individual trees, or small areas of mature trees when young trees are nearby is beneficial to overall growth.

Thankfully in Europe, there are more trees than there were a century ago and GoodWood Solutions uses only logs that have been grown in Finland, which has one of the world’s most ecologically sound policies on wood usage and sustainability. Finnish law decrees that for every felled tree another two must be replanted and it is illegal for large areas of woodland to be cleared.

Furthermore, the energy required to produce the materials for a log home is significantly less than that of the equivalent block home. Strength for strength, a glued laminated timber beam, used for construction, requires only a fifth as much energy to manufacture as a concrete beam and an eighth of that of one made from steel.