These tall wood projects can be either heavy timber or mass timber. When building tall, the structural system must be taken into account, including ductility, load paths, and transfer and uplift ...

"We didn’t seek any code exceptions, we simply followed the rules of building under Type IV heavy timber,” explained Cavanaugh. “If you are going to do it, accept that there is going to be a ...

“But if you want to go taller, especially [if] you want to go above 85 feet— that is currently IBC [International Building Code] for Type IV, heavy timber—then you have to do something else ...

(Courtesy ZGF) Designers are regionally sourcing more than 2.6 million board feet of glulam beams and heavy timber, as well as 400,000 square feet of mass plywood panels—all locally from Oregon ...

ft.) hangar at its engineering base in Mangare, Auckland. The hangar will be the largest single-span timber arch aircraft hangar in the world and will be one and a half times the size of Air New ...

Heavy timber hasn’t been used in large-scale building construction in the District in a century, but construction is now underway on an addition to an existing… ...

Hines continues its Greater Houston domination as it spearheads the development of Texas A&M University’s mass-timber Aplin Center ... owner and Texas A&M alum Arch “Beaver” Aplin III ...