Annual spending on energy-efficient buildings in Europe - including products and services - is forecast to grow from €41.4 billion ($56 billion) in 2014 to €80.8 billion ($109 billion) in 2023 (Navigant Research, 2014). Some European countries have established minimum consumption targets for wood use in new buildings, but these policies can be problematic, both for designers, who may feel compelled to use wood products in suboptimal situations, and for non-wood product manufacturers, who may perceive unfair procurement practices. Rather than identifying specific materials for special treatment, a more constructive approach would be to encourage policies based on life-cyde assessment, which is gradually becoming used more widely in the EU (UNECE, 2015). To overcome this, the European Commission will collaborate with stakeholders to develop a framework of core indicators, including their underlying methods, to be used in assessing the environmental performance of EU buildings throughout their life cycles (European Commission, 2014b). This moves away from a prescriptive basis for green building and toward a performance basis, with greater emphasis on the end use of systematic lifecycle assessment-based tools and information.