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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Skyscrapers made of wood, one of our oldest building materials, are no longer a fantasy thanks to the recent ...

Idaho Forest Group, which operates five mills in North Idaho, recently explored jumping into cross-laminated timber in a partnership with the Johann Offner Group, a global manufacturing company ...

Some of multifamily housing’s boldest designs were born from dreaming big. But what if we dreamed big about building those designs? Some of the most futuristic building materials available today are ...

The state is betting on ‘mass timber’ technologies that allow wooden structures to stand taller. Oregon Plans for Wooden Skyscrapers VALE, ORE. -- Oregon is betting that the skyscrapers of the future ...

Mass-timber-frame enthusiasts extoll the virtues of the structural material not only because it is renewable but also because building with timber is typically speedier, safer, simpler and quieter ...

PORTLAND IS GROWING UP—adding high-rises, increasing density, and pricing many people out. But two local firms are exploring a state-of-the-art building material that could help solve the city’s ...