What’s unusual is how they’re building it — by bolting together giant beams, columns, and panels made of manufactured slabs of wood. As each wood element is delivered by flatbed, a tall ...

When wood foundations fail, it's always a case of poor construction techniques. The key elements are properly ... footings and under-slab fill where a perforated sump basket collects it for ...

Tall timber buildings are on the rise. Design teams around the world are taking advantage of ever-evolving mass timber technologies, resulting in taller and taller structures. Building off our ...

“Timber City,” an illuminating if not see-through exhibition at the National Building Museum, proposes an alternative. Tomorrow’s buildings will — or should — be constructed of woo ...

Build with wood. This historic building method is back ... It includes carefully planning the future of forests, one element of which is selective harvesting. This allows the trees left behind ...

It’s one of the oldest, most sustainable building materials (if harvested ... of the AEC industry aware of (non–fire-treated) wood’s shortcomings. These emails are part of an ongoing battle ...