U.S. Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and Andrea Salinas (D-OR) introduced the Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act. This ...

Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...

Earn Your Graduate Certificate in Timber Building Design at One of the Best Structural Engineering Schools in the Nation. Sustainable construction is the use of renewable and recyclable materials in ...

A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with.

The next crane you see going up over a Seattle city block should be lifting cross-laminated timber panels harvested from ...

What’s old is new again—especially in the building industry. In 2017, Leers Weinzapfel Associates constructed a building completely out of timber at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lauded for ...

The inspiration to build the world’s tallest mass timber building in Milwaukee was an eye-catching design 90 miles to the south, along the Chicago River. “It seemed fantastical and futuristic and it ...

MILWAUKEE - A new building proposal could change Milwaukee's skyline and set a world record. The city announced plans Tuesday for multiple mixed-use buildings that would replace the Marcus Performing ...

The influential Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has officially declared Norway's Mjøstårnet as the new world's tallest timber building. The mixed-use building reaches a total ...

As far as taller timber structures go, Chicago has been slow to follow the lead of other cities, such as Minneapolis, Atlanta and Milwaukee. But that may be changing. In early 2023, developer Sterling ...