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 ...

The use of mass timber, such as cross laminated timber (CLT) and glue laminated timber (GLT) panels, is gaining interest among architects, interior designers, contractors, structural engineers, and ...

Laminated timber is more environmentally friendly than steel, and perfectly safe for constructing tall buildings.

The most comprehensive reference on building with mass timber, extensively covering its sustainability, materials, building conceptualization, structural design and construction processes Mass Timber: ...

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 ...

Mass-timber built structures are being constructed at a breakneck pace around the world, in metro area and converted rural ...

The rapid rate of progress for tall timber construction continues with an ambitious new residential tower designed by Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen. Named Rocket&Tigerli, the building will be the ...

Denver's Return to Form, a winning project in 2022 Mass Timber Competition: Building to Net-Zero. (Courtesy Katz Development, Timberlab, KL&A Engineers and Builders, and Tres Birds) Winning teams will ...

The Port of Seattle transformed a deteriorating 1914 waterfront timber building into a sustainable Living Building Challenge showcase.

The design will offer modern, high-quality housing with a maximum inflow of daylight, according to its designers, the Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects (SHL). It will also seek to create an ...

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