Designing and building the first mass timber commercial office building in the Philadelphia metropolitan area required intense coordination to combine mass timber with multiple structural systems.

Developer hopes to demonstrate how the use of mass ply paneling over cross-laminated timber can speed up construction and make for a structurally stronger building. When 1510 Webster in downtown ...

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 ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

Contrary to its name, the Stone Age wasn’t just about stone. The epoch also known as the Neolithic Period also ushered in some of the first structures ever created from wood. The scientific study of ...

Mass timber has shifted from an experimental niche to a central part of the contemporary debate surrounding sustainable construction. The combination of lower embodied carbon, prefabricated systems, ...

Completed in 2024, the new Redmond Library in Deschutes County, Oregon, embodies a forward-looking vision for community architecture — one where mass timber and raised access flooring combine to ...

For a carbon-neutral dining hall at Swarthmore College, Mid-Atlantic Timberframes arrived at a 48-feet-span glulam truss to support the shed dormer. The project features glulam columns on a 24-foot by ...

Being the “tallest” was never the goal for the Ascent, a 284-foot-high timber-framed residential tower in Milwaukee, says Jason Korb, principal at Korb + Associates Architects, the building’s design ...

Drawing on research developed by Paul Mayencourt’s team at the UC Berkeley Wood Lab, Mad River Mass Timber has emerged as California’s first producer of dowel-laminated mass timber, which has the ...

A team led by developer SKS Partners and the San Francisco studio of Perkins&Will has announced the completion of 1 De Haro, a 134,000-square-foot office and light industrial building in the heart of ...