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 ...

‘In France, we build more with concrete and stone than wood,’ he said. ‘When I was exposed to Japanese building culture, I realised how you could build fantastic structures with wood. This material ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, WA - Laying out the case for wood construction over steel, concrete and bricks, the Innovative Wood Products Collaborative notes that as timber grows, it soaks up carbon dioxide. That carbon ...

In New York and Portland, two high-rise buildings will be made not from concrete or metal, but a throwback material: good old trees. It seems as if New York City is always under construction. Every ...

PORTLAND IS GROWING UP—adding high-rises, increasing density, and pricing many people out. But two local firms are exploring a state-of-the-art building material that could help solve the city's ...

Woodoo, a biotechnology startup that transforms discarded wood into alternatives for construction material, has raised $31 million in funding. The Paris-based company said it can use discarded wood as ...

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’re concerned with reducing your carbon footprint while remodeling your patio or building a new home, there’s good news: cedar and other wood products are an economical and eco-friendly building ...

The research team emphasized that Western red cedar performed better than in their earlier work on bamboo, likely due to the ...

Millard Dority came out of retirement to prove a point. He wanted to show that Maine is an obvious location for producing a new type of composite wood building material rather than importing it.