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 ...

Oslotre designed the project for a restrictive site, though kept a focus on daylighting with parametric modeling tools. The geometry of the building’s floorplan cuts in and out along the edges to ...

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 ...

St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...

As commercial construction costs soar and the time it takes to complete a project continues to climb, the new cross-laminated timber building option may soon be offering some relief for Washington ...

Cross laminated timber (CLT) is gaining acceptance as an eco-friendly building material, a trend that will propel its growth through the end of the 2020s. The CLT market is projected to more than ...

Developers and designers are starting to embrace cross-laminated timber, which is showing up in new buildings throughout the Portland area. First Tech Federal Credit Union began moving into its new ...

Portland, one of the leading cities for sustainability initiatives in the U.S., is now home to the nation’s tallest mass timber and cross-laminated timber (CLT) building. Designed by local design ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Kat Burn, a biotech executive, and Michael Burn, who has a background in computer programming and startup firms, consider themselves tech savvy. So when the couple decided to build a new house in Bend ...

SEATTLE - The loggers who Seattle a center of the national timber industry are long gone. And only a few wooden landmarks of the timber heyday, mostly churches, still exist on the low-slung skyline of ...