Modern mass timber buildings are designed and constructed for style and performance. Built of engineered wood products, these projects allow industry professionals to diversify the use of wood ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

Can mass timber compete in large public venues? Engineers of the Freedom Mobile Arch in British Columbia say it's possible.

Mass timber is a sustainable, high-performance material that is helping realize new transportation infrastructure across the United States. This course explores mass timber's role in designing and ...

UC Berkeley researchers are using a technique called dowel-laminated timber or DLT to salvage wood from forest fires to ...

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 ...

Mass timber is poised to join concrete, steel, and light-wood framing as a primary structural material for multifamily projects. Mass timber construction involves the use of prefabricated wood ...

An ambitious new timber tower in Toronto, Canada, is due to begin construction soon. Thanks to its innovative prefabricated wooden design, the residential building named 230 Royal York is expected to ...

With some of the strictest building codes in the nation, New York City is in many ways not the test bed for architectural experimentation one might expect. Here, an architect’s creativity is often ...

Oregon State’s Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex is designed to prove wood can support demanding research environments.

During the construction of 670 Union — the city’s first mass-timber condo — an FDNY squad drove up in fire trucks and swarmed in front of the site. Eric Liftin, the principal of Mesh Architectures, ...

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.