ASHEVILLE - This city will be the site of the continent's largest structure made from an alternative building product praised for its usability, flexibility and low environmental impact. That is ...

Mass timber building advocates are encouraged by the results of the world’s first blast tests on full-scale structures framed with the renewable construction material. The performance metrics 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 ...

Some of multifamily housing’s boldest designs were born from dreaming big. But what if we dreamed big about building those designs? Some of the most futuristic building materials available today are ...

The International Code Council is looking into potential code changes to accommodate taller cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures. Most building codes limit a CLT structure's height. CLT is being ...

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 ...

When first considering the addition of floors at a former South Boston rivet factory in 2018, the nonprofit owner CIEE Inc. quickly realized that installing a heavy concrete or steel system on top of ...

When Beneficial State Bank officials started to think about replacing the Pearl District Albina Community Bank building with a new development, a buzz had already started in the construction industry.