Wood construction of big buildings is catching on just about everywhere for good reasons: wood is renewable. In construction it is light, fast and less expensive than other materials. It's also just ...

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 ...

Building tall buildings out of wood instead of steel offers a lot of benefits, most notably that it considerably cuts the carbon footprint of new construction. But the properties of wood mean that all ...

Hilco Global's commercial industrial practice and Integra Asset Solutions are pleased to announce the immediate sale of a never used or installed WEINMANN / HOMAG premium engineered automated ...

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 ...

If you think of the primary building materials that are used in the construction of your home, what types come to mind? You’d probably agree that materials such as wood, steel, and concrete make up a ...

A 5,500 square foot wood building has been constructed in Japan using an unusual engineering premise: jumbo-sized wooden puzzle pieces (think Rubics cube) that interlock through joinery to hold the ...

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF), in partnership with the Maine Department of Economic ...