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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 ...

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

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If you have access to a drill press, saw, and sander, and are looking for a great present for smaller children this holiday season, [Jonny] may have you covered. He’s come up with a pretty good how to ...

More architects are turning to wood to build their structures and make them more sustainable. In Sweden, a $110 million center was built as a proof of concept for this. Other architects in Sweden are ...

Skyscrapers made mostly of wood are rising around the world, and now plans have been announced to build what would be the world’s tallest “plyscraper” in Tokyo. The planned 70-story, 1,148-foot tower ...

In March 2019, the Mjösa Tower became the tallest wooden building in the world at 18 floors (for a total of 85.4 meters tall), followed closely by the HoHo Wien building in Austria (84 meters) and the ...

Architects in Japan are hard at work on plans for an ambitious new project: a 1,148- foot skyscraper, built almost entirely of wood. As Elle Hunt of the Guardian reports, the new building is not ...

The modern industrial era was literally built on steel and concrete, readily available materials that gave buildings the strength to stretch hundreds of stories into the sky. Unlike wood, steel and ...