Gain comprehensive knowledge of timber structures from experts. Learn advanced design of timber structures. The advent of mass timber and tall wood buildings has brought timber design back into the ...

Although initially conceived as a concrete structure, switching to timber as the primary building material proved to have a host of benefits. When San Mateo County set out to build a new office ...

Cross-laminated wood is becoming a hot new building material with several benefits, including storing carbon dioxide. Timber towers are under construction, up to 35 stories. Can our forests sustain ...

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 ...

One of the first elements used by humans to build shelters, wood is a versatile material that, along with technological advances, remains a protagonist in the construction industry, being used in ...

Last summer, the developer oWow, which specializes in mass timber projects, for the second time revised its plans for an apartment building in downtown Oakland, Calif., that, if completed, would be ...

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.

Remember those old-fashion Lincoln Logs children once played with back before they became glued to their tablets? Today, creative design using wooden materials is no longer just for kids. Across the ...

A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with.

Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Thanks to mass timber and tall wood building, timber design is at the forefront of structural engineering and architecture—and ...