Mike Dyer, one of the owners of Western Wood Structures in Tualatin, Oregon, has over four decades of experience building with mass timber. As a former sales representative for a glulam manufacturer ...
Mass timber is a materials and design approach that holds immense potential to transform the future of the commercial building industry and the environment. The term pertains to the utilization of ...
Picture a hospital and you might imagine concrete, stainless steel or plastic. But University of Oregon researchers hope to make wood—often overlooked in health care facilities—more commonplace in ...
Mass timber is starting to present itself more frequently as an option for more sustainable and aesthetically pleasing construction. Amid rising surface temperatures and an ongoing climate crisis, ...
BALTIMORE — Cambium, a supply chain technology company with a focus on the wood industry, has announced the launch of Carbon Smart Wood for mass timber a cross-laminated timber (CLT) product made from ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A new construction framing style known as mass timber could soon be making its way into carpentry projects across the islands. Mass timber is a framing style that carpenters across ...
The use of mass timber in school construction has positive effects on kids and teachers, and contributes to forest ...
When Portland International Airport opens its refurbished main terminal in August, visitors will be met with a rippling nine-acre roof entirely constructed out of wood. The roof’s crests and valleys ...
A year after the company that built it filed for bankruptcy protection, an engineered wood facility in Conway is seeing increases in both orders and production. "We've been running very steadily on a ...
When the Portland Museum of Art starts construction on its $100 million expansion, it is expected to showcase an innovative building product that’s gaining popularity here but is not yet produced in ...
The future of architecture lies in antiquity. I don’t mean that we’re headed for another round of neoclassical nostalgia but instead that it’s time to embrace a practice so basic and immemorial that ...
The Port of Portland has granted a lease to Zaugg Timber Solutions. The company makes wood products, sometimes called mass timber. This undated provided photo is a rendering of the planned Zaugg ...