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 ...

Even before a building accepts its first occupant, it has racked up a steep carbon debt. Worldwide, the materials and ...

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

Interested in building with Cross Laminated Timber, but unsure where to start? Kaiser+Path designed, built and developed the tallest CLT building in America and they are revealing their entire process ...

Although wood is commonly used as a finish material in nonresidential buildings, more and more Building Teams are specifying wood as a structural material to accompany steel or concrete—or sometimes ...

Digitally crafted from wood, aerogel, and metal, this self-sustaining refuge blends into the Alps, harvests water from air.

When first considering the addition of floors at a former South Boston rivet factory in 2018, the nonprofit owner CIEE Inc. quickly realized that installing a heavy concrete or steel system on top of ...