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A Spokane Valley factory could help transform the U.S. building industry, bringing tall, wooden structures into the mainstream. Building with wood – a renewable resource – is better for the ...
More multistory buildings are being made with mass timber, or wood that is glued and pressed in special ways to make it structurally capable of replacing building materials like concrete and steel, ...
From 100-foot roof spans to novel reclaimed wood installations, the winners of the 2013 National Wood Design Awards push the envelope in wood design. WoodWorks, an initiative of the Wood Products ...
Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. Queen's University, Ontario provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. All over the world, ...
The Mjøstårnet, an 18-storey mixed-use building constructed with engineered wood, overlooks Norway’s largest lake, in Brumunddal. (Woodify/YouTube) All over the world, architects and engineers are ...
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 ...
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 ...