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Substituting timber for mineral structural materials reduces the cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of a building.

Under review — the register is reading the literature and will publish a conclusion once directional evidence has been indexed.

In plain terms

The published record broadly agrees with this. The evidence is still too thin to lean on for a decision.

This sentence is generated from the same numbers shown below — consensus share, confidence band and the number of indexed studies. Open any section to see exactly how it was reached.

Version 9 · WI-EV v1.0.0 · last swept 2026-08-30

Evidence Score

57

0–100, rule-based

Confidence

Low confidence

Too few, too old or too conflicting sources to specify from.

Consensus

100%

6 support · 0 contradict · 25 unclassified · 6 directionally assessed

Studies

31

2001–2026

Confidence is limited most by volume of evidence (4/30).

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How the score is built6 weighted components, 57/100 total
Volume of evidence

6 directional studies, weighted by grade.

4/30
Study quality

Mean evidence grade 50/100 across the pool.

12/25
Agreement

100% of weighted directional evidence agrees.

20/20
Peer review

77% published in peer-reviewed venues.

8/10
Recency

Median publication year 2022.

10/10
Reproducibility

55% resolvable by DOI and independently checkable.

3/5
Where the literature disagreesNo direct contradictions in the indexed pool

No direct contradictions in the indexed pool. That is not the same as agreement — it can also mean too few directional studies have been published to disagree yet.

How the consensus moved over timeConsensus recomputed using only the evidence published up to each year
YearPublishedCumulativeSupportContradictConsensus
200111000%
201112000%
201213000%
201314000%
201615000%
201716000%
20182820100%
202151320100%
202221520100%
202321720100%
202442130100%
202542550100%
202642960100%
Revision history8 published revisions
  1. v91 new study indexed.2026-08-23 · score 57 · 100%
  2. v81 new study indexed.2026-08-21 · score 57 · 100%
  3. v73 new studies indexed, Evidence Score +1 to 57.2026-08-16 · score 57 · 100%
  4. v69 new studies indexed, Evidence Score -3 to 56.2026-08-09 · score 56 · 100%
  5. v5Evidence Score +2 to 59.2026-08-08 · score 59 · 100%
  6. v4consensus 0% → 100%.2026-08-08 · score 57 · 100%
  7. v33 new studies indexed, Evidence Score +1 to 57.2026-08-08 · score 57 · 0%
  8. v214 new studies indexed, Evidence Score +56 to 56.2026-08-08 · score 56 · 0%
Every indexed record31 studies with stance, grade and citation count

The use of substitution in attributional life cycle assessment

Matthew Brander, Charlotte Wylie · 2011 · Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management · doi:10.1080/20430779.2011.637670

The article addresses substitution as an LCA allocation method rather than timber replacing mineral building materials

Neutral

Grade B · 64 citations

Peer-reviewed

Stance classification is automated and reviewed against each record's own abstract; it is a reading of the literature, not a measurement. The Evidence Score is a rule-based function of indexed metadata under method WI-EV v1.0.0 and does not constitute proof of the statement.

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APA
WoodIntel. (2026). Substituting timber for mineral structural materials reduces the cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of a building. (Evidence Engine WI-EV v1.0.0, claim version 9). Retrieved 2026-08-30, from https://woodintel.io/evidence/wood-carbon-substitution-benefit
BibTeX
@misc{woodintel_wood_carbon_substitution_benefit_2026,
  title  = {Substituting timber for mineral structural materials reduces the cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions of a building.},
  author = {{WoodIntel}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Evidence Engine WI-EV v1.0.0, claim version 9, accessed 2026-08-30},
  url    = {https://woodintel.io/evidence/wood-carbon-substitution-benefit}
}
Open API
curl https://woodintel.io/api/public/v1/evidence?claim=wood-carbon-substitution-benefit

Returns the score, the indexed studies with stance and grade, the contradictions, the timeline and the full revision history. Open under CC BY 4.0 — API documentation.