Mass timber building advocates are encouraged by the results of the world’s first blast tests on full-scale structures framed with the renewable construction material. The performance metrics and ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) was initially developed in Europe as an alternative to stone, masonry and concrete construction. It is essentially mass timber plates made from smaller framing lumber ...

Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

As the AI fervor continues to reshape how people see the world, 2025 looms as yet another year in the march toward technological advancement. While some worry about the dominance of technology in ...

Timber is a natural, renewable material, easy to fabricate, and with low-carbon emissions. As a construction material, however, when put under enough directional force along its grain, sawn timber is ...

Reusing timber is becoming key to achieving sustainability goals in the construction sector. Reclaimed timber is already being harnessed in a more sustainable and valuable way, one example is circular ...

C.F. Møller's Hagastaden apartment building in Stockholm was designed in collaboration with Dinelljohansson; it is part of a Swedish research project on tall timber. (Courtesy C.F. Møller) Waugh ...

Thanks to a two-year, $250,000 Wood Innovations Grant from the United States Forest Service, and with further support from the National Hardwood Lumber Association, Indiana Hardwood Lumberman’s ...

COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, SmartLam has reorganized as SmartLam North America to better serve the needs of the rapidly expanding mass timber market via intelligent and integrated ...

Timberlab Inc. (Timberlab) and Swinerton Incorporated (Swinerton), together with Swinerton Builders, Lindgren Development, LEVER Architecture, and other project partners, have topped out Independence ...