For those who are involved in the design and construction community, it is likely that you have encountered the topic of mass timber construction over the last few years. And for good reason! When ...

Timber is becoming increasingly popular as the most sustainable construction material. But structural timber design is not easy. Currently, floor framing designers produce many possible designs before ...

Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Thanks to mass timber and tall wood building, timber design is at the forefront of structural engineering and architecture—and ...

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 ...

The International Mass Timber Conference grows by approximately 30 percent each year, on average. (Allan Horton) Outside of the exhibition hall were local building tours and talks on mass timber ...

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

Skylab Architecture’s Outpost in Hood River, Oregon, a winner of the 2021 U.S. Wood Design Awards in the Commercial Wood Design – Mid-Rise category. (Stephen A. Miller/Courtesy WoodWorks) Now, as ...

As our cities continue to grow and expand rapidly, there has been an increasing demand for architects and craftsmen to build houses more cost-efficiently under tight deadlines. Modular architecture ...

The world of development is experiencing a seismic shift in perceived value by prospective tenants as we emerge from the pandemic. A flight to quality with a focus on healthy buildings and restorative ...

The architecture firm DLR Group has been methodically relying on mass timber, with more than 3 million sf of that building material now in the firm’s design portfolio. Among its recent mass timber ...

The developer of Baltimore’s first commercial mass timber office building downtown has revealed a modified design to optimize its construction plan and achieve cost savings in a challenging pandemic ...

Before steel, before concrete and before humans learned how to make a bunch of building materials that are ultimately bad for the environment, people built everything out of sustainable, renewable and ...