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 ...

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 ...

First came the bridge, then came the big wooden building. Work on the Catalyst campus at the south landing of the University District Gateway Bridge has moved quickly, and the two buildings under ...

Seattle District, JBLM Army Garrison, and 1st Special Forces Group leadership joined to celebrate the Department of War’s ...

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 ...

Some of multifamily housing’s boldest designs were born from dreaming big. But what if we dreamed big about building those designs? Some of the most futuristic building materials available today are ...

Cross-laminated timber panels consist of layers of solid-sawn lumber at right angles to each other, bonded with structural adhesive. Mass-timber-structure enthusiasts are calling results of recent ...

Cross laminated timber (CLT) is increasingly being recognized as a viable alternative to conventional construction materials such as concrete and steel. Its reduced carbon footprint and efficient ...

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been dubbed the concrete of the future. As a highly resilient form of engineered wood made by gluing layers of solid-sawn lumber together, CLT is reshaping how we ...

Waugh Thistleton's Watts Grove project raises some questions and they deliver some answers. TreeHugger loves wood construction. We have to reduce the embodied energy of our buildings and building with ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A series of fiery, live blast tests on three cross-laminated timber structures have been conducted at Tyndall Air Force Base by WoodWorks in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service ...