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.

A move towards a built environment that centers sustainability and embodied carbon is driving innovation within mass and ...

Picture a hospital and you might imagine concrete, stainless steel or plastic. But University of Oregon researchers hope to ...

“Mass timber is a real architect’s material: delightfully engineered, simply effective, beautiful,” says Liftin, who is now designing a row of five mass timber townhouses in Brooklyn.

Stein presented a WoodWorks' mass timber business case study on 1 De Haro and discussed the building's appeal to ESG-driven tenants in the Bay Area. Located in San Francisco, 1 De Haro is leased ...

Mass timber will not become a mainstream building product because it uses too much wood, construction material expert Benjamin Kromoser claims in this interview for the Timber Revolution.

Mass timber construction, which uses various forms of wood products including glue-laminated columns and beams and cross laminated (CLT) panels instead of more traditional steel and concrete materials ...

Architects are in a proof-of-concept race to construct sustainable wood high-rises. Oct. 31 at 6:30 a.m. SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest ...

Mass timber is gaining in popularity, especially in the West, as a sustainable alternative to building with steel and concrete. But questions remain about its limits, cost and applications.

A revolutionary wood-based material that outperforms steel in strength-to-weight ratio is about to transform the construction industry as we know it. InventWood, a University of Maryland spinout ...

This material is called “cross laminated timber,” because each layer is glued crosswise, which makes the material stronger. Megan Thompson: So it’s kind of like plywood on steroids.