Sitka spruce grown for commercial timber production on the Cowal peninsula has come full circle, returning as the material ...

Timber-frame construction puts gravity and lateral loads into fewer, larger members. It relies on exposed beams and open spans as defining architectural features. That differs from conventional wood ...

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Roundwood timber framing means working with materials sourced straight from the forest, using nature’s shapes to create the structure, employing techniques that can easily be learnt and passed on, and ...

Paul Freeman was just another college kid sitting in a lecture hall in 1977 when he heard his calling.”It became clear that my boyhood home with its weathered dark beams, gunstock posts, and ...

Mass timber is poised to join concrete, steel, and light-wood framing as a primary structural material for multifamily projects. Mass timber construction involves the use of prefabricated wood ...

Environmental sustainability was the main factor for using specially treated lumber, instead of steel and concrete, for developer Ann Pieper Eisenbrown's newly opened Walker's Point apartment building ...