Table 2. Average annual mass timber use (million m3) projected in low, medium, high, and 100% adoption scenarios in four-stories-and-higher residential and nonresidential buildings in the United States under different shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), and market adoption scenarios, 2020–2070.
Scenario | Multifamily residential | Nonresidential | Total (Multifamily residential + nonresidential) | ||||||||||||
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SSP1 | SSP2 | SSP3 | SSP4 | SSP5 | SSP1 | SSP2 | SSP3 | SSP4 | SSP5 | SSP1 | SSP2 | SSP3 | SSP4 | SSP5 | |
Low | 0.39 | 0.38 | 0.33 | 0.37 | 0.46 | 3.11 | 2.96 | 2.31 | 2.80 | 4.28 | 3.50 | 3.34 | 2.63 | 3.17 | 4.74 |
Medium | 0.63 | 0.62 | 0.53 | 0.60 | 0.74 | 4.82 | 4.60 | 3.61 | 4.35 | 6.54 | 5.45 | 5.22 | 4.14 | 4.95 | 7.28 |
High | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.71 | 0.80 | 0.99 | 6.19 | 5.92 | 4.67 | 5.60 | 8.32 | 7.02 | 6.74 | 5.37 | 6.40 | 9.31 |
100% | 2.00 | 1.96 | 1.80 | 1.91 | 2.34 | 9.58 | 9.20 | 7.34 | 8.72 | 12.66 | 11.58 | 11.16 | 9.03 | 10.63 | 15.00 |