Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Influencing Factors of Wood Consumption in China’s Construction Industry

Wood is a natural and high-quality material for green and low-carbon buildings, and it is increasingly winning the favor of architects and consumers against the background of “dual carbon”. Exploring the current characteristics and trends of wood consumption in the construction industry (WCCI) and identifying its influencing factors are of great value for the scientific management of WCCI and the improvement of the comprehensive utilization efficiency of wood in the construction industry. In this study, the Boston Consulting Group Matrix and Geodetector were used in combination for empirical analysis of WCCI in China from 2000 to 2021. It is found that the changes in WCCI in China present a diversified trend with significant regional differences. The WCCI market at the provincial scale in China is divided into star, lost, potential, and marginal spaces. WCCI in China has very complex influencing factors and their mechanisms of action, and the interaction of its factor pairs is manifested as bifactor enhancement and nonlinear enhancement. This study provides a great application value for rational planning of wood resource utilization and pushing buildings into a low-carbon and green future, and it inspires the government to pay more attention to the design of spatial policies rather than industry policies and more attention to the design of policy combinations rather than individual policies. In addition, in the management of WCCI under the background of ecological civilization, it is necessary to escape the set pattern of the wood industry and force more use of wood in buildings in the design of constraint policies for non-wood building materials (such as glass, aluminum, steel, cement, and other high-carbon and energy-intensive building materials).