At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re ...

I'd like to build a wood shed to hold firewood. I'd like to build a raised structure supported on concrete blocks or some other kind of foundation, if possible. Traditionally, people either just throw ...

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 ...

If you think of the primary building materials that are used in the construction of your home, what types come to mind? You’d probably agree that materials such as wood, steel, and concrete make up a ...

St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...

A few years ago, I wrote an article about new uses of wood, including as a sustainable construction material. It was a surprise hit. Since then, we have covered wood technology as often as possible.

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 timber ...

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