The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

A wood floor consists of a finished floor laid over a subfloor supported by joists and beams. Joists may have solid or diagonal bridging between them to provide extra strength. Joists, beams, posts ...

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 ...

A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with.

Timber erection began last month for the Center for Arctic Studies at Brunswick, Maine-based Bowdoin College despite an exceedingly wet summer, says Matt Tonello project executive at Consigli ...

Being the “tallest” was never the goal for the Ascent, a 284-foot-high timber-framed residential tower in Milwaukee, says Jason Korb, principal at Korb + Associates Architects, the building’s design ...

Harvard University’s first hybrid mass timber and low-carbon concrete conference center is a bold commitment to ...

Kirkland's first large scale mass timber office building, the Lakeview Office Building, is complete. The 46,000-square-foot building at 5501 Lakeview Drive is the first large-scale mass timber office ...