The Framework Project, LLC announced that the company has successfully completed two significant fire tests on Cross-laminated Timber as a building material, “demonstrating for the first time the ...

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 ...

Construction is underway on two new homes for Veterans in New Bern, the latest project in Purple Heart Homes’ nationwide effort to expand affordable, accessible homeownership for those who served. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rising labor and material costs have many developers and contractors looking to new ways to build their projects. One emerging material is cross-laminated timber or mass timber, which is a ...

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 ...

A $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping pave the way for a 12-story cross-laminated timber building in Portland A $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of ...

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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 ...