Oregon has generated $13.5 million in timber sales in July, providing enough wood to build approximately 3,000 homes and ...

Just below that are tall timber buildings in Asia, Canada and Europe, with some of the most ambitious projects rising in old timber and mining towns in Scandinavia, including Norway’s 18-story ...

Wood is being billed as the answer to creating greener cities – lightweight and sustainable, it is even said to be more fire resistant than steel. The newest addition to the timber trend is a ...

Companies behind these “mass timber” projects say that wood is a lower-carbon alternative to steel or concrete and brings other benefits, such as faster construction time and lower cost than ...

A European city is setting new standards in sustainable urban development with the construction of the world's largest wooden ...

Schools and businesses were closed for a second day and thousands of residents still couldn’t go home Wednesday as a weakened timber dam threatened to give way and spill a 6-foot surge of water ...

And to hear the architect behind the tower tell it, T3 is the future of urban construction. The timber used to make T3 is a far cry from the pine two-by-fours used to build houses.

“We stopped exploring wood around 100 years ago (with the advent of steel and concrete); now we’re looking at a whole new system using mass timber products.” ...

Timber, the massive kind But both Green and Blomgren argue that the wooden building technologies available today are a far cry from the creaky wood-framed structures of the past. Crucially, Green ...