What’s old is new again—especially in the building industry. In 2017, Leers Weinzapfel Associates constructed a building completely out of timber at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lauded for ...

Engineered materials like cross-laminated and glue-laminated timber, in which layers of wood are glued together, create beams ...

Cross-laminated wood is becoming a hot new building material with several benefits, including storing carbon dioxide. Timber towers are under construction, up to 35 stories. Can our forests sustain ...

As states across the country roll out new regulations to encourage the commercial real estate industry to cut carbon emissions, construction firms and building owners alike are searching for ways to ...

If you built forts with Legos or Lincoln Logs when you were a kid, or if you’ve built retaining walls with landscape timbers as an adult, the building technique described in this article will be ...

There are a number of different ways of building a timber frame construction, each with their own set of pros and cons. From the speed at which they can be constructed, to the eco-attributes of timber ...

Travelers are tired of cold, uninspiring airport terminals, and airport operators are under pressure to slash their carbon emissions. Mass timber, an engineered wood that is stronger, more stable and ...

A tower that reaches a height of 75 m (246 ft) may not sound all that impressive – the Empire State Building is over five times taller, after all – but when you consider that the Sara Cultural Centre ...

In 1860, the renowned landscape painter Frederic Church purchased a mountainous tract of riverfront property, situated between the towns of Hudson and Catskill in New York’s Hudson Valley. With his ...