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Continued advances in cross laminated timber (CLT) and wood framing techniques now make wood high-rises practical. A key enabling technology are adhesives. Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill ...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) was initially developed in Europe as an alternative to stone, masonry and concrete construction. It is essentially mass timber plates made from smaller framing lumber ...

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been dubbed the concrete of the future. As a highly resilient form of engineered wood made by gluing layers of solid-sawn lumber together, CLT is reshaping how we ...

The expansion features an innovative Cross Laminated Timber roof system in the multipurpose room, serving as both the ...

Tad Bradley looks at Boise Fire Station 13's innovative design by using cross-laminated timber to increase operational ...

Design professionals, real estate developers and builders alike are advocating for a relatively new way of using one of the world’s oldest building materials—wood—in large-scale commercial and ...

Safety concerns following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 led to building safety codes that limited the use of wood in construction. While it was one of the first and most common materials used to make ...

Waugh Thistleton's Watts Grove project raises some questions and they deliver some answers. TreeHugger loves wood construction. We have to reduce the embodied energy of our buildings and building with ...

Half of the world’s population currently lives and works in urban areas, and futurists predict that by 2050 that figure will grow to 75 percent. At the same time, traditional building materials – ...

High-rise construction is polarizing in U.S. cities, and faces several barriers. The costof building towers is higher per square foot than for low-rise buildings; the carbon emissions from concrete- ...

Engineered wood products (EWPs) are used in a wide range of construction applications. For low in-place cost, versatility and superior performance, engineered wood systems are simply hard to beat.