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Mike Dyer, one of the owners of Western Wood Structures in Tualatin, Oregon, has over four decades of experience building with mass timber. As a former sales representative for a glulam manufacturer ...

Could your house take a bullet for you? Clad it with a new type of modified wood, and it might, says Alex Lau, co-founder and executive chairman of InventWood. The US-based company has developed ...

ZHANGZHOU , FUJIAN, CHINA, January 12, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As global construction markets continue to embrace ...

LEESBURG, Va. – The American Wood Council (AWC) has released a revised 2015 Manual for Engineered Wood Construction, which contains design information for structural lumber, glued laminated timber, ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

The way Australian homes are built could be changed forever, with new research into a type of engineered timber showing it could cement its place as an environmentally friendly alternative to concrete ...

As people become increasingly interested in the sustainability in all things, building construction was bound to find itself under scrutiny. Steel and concrete are notorious for their large ...

Thermal modification is a wood treatment process involving exposure to high temperatures in kilns, reducing moisture content to nearly 0%. This eliminates bonding water and free water within wood ...