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 ...

Buildings made of mass timber – layers of wood bonded together – are gaining popularity as greener and faster alternatives to concrete and steel structures. With new building codes recently updated to ...

This seven-story office building Hunt Realty is planning just north of downtown Dallas would be built with engineered timbers and wood construction. Hunt Realty When plans were unveiled recently for a ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

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 ...

Mass timber, an engineered wood product known for its strength and versatility, has emerged as a formidable alternative to traditional construction materials like concrete and steel. As concerns about ...

Earlier this year, Juno, a Silicon Valley-based “proptech” startup with a novel approach to the multifamily sector, completed its first project—a 24-unit apartment building in Austin, Texas. The ...

On January 29, the owner/developer Hines stated that it had completed construction on a three-story, 92,000-sf office and residential building in East Austin, Texas. The building, known as T3 ATX ...

Can you really build a skyscraper out of wood? Though we typically think of steel, concrete, and glass as the building blocks of a modern city, TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood, a new exhibit ...

The exhibit is part of a collaboration between the Department of Natural Resources and MassTimber@MSU, a program at Michigan State University researching mass timber.

Engine 29 (E-29) arrived to find medium smoke showing on the first floor of a six-story heavy timber building. (The 750-foot-long by 175-foot-deep building covered an entire city block.) The ...