Framework

02/01/2023

Airport employees got a sneak peak at the terminal renovations taking place at PDX including seeing the new roof that was recently installed. The roof was assem

01/24/2023

The many, many benefits of using wood in place of concrete and steel.

12/22/2022

The way in which the trunk is cut is determinant to establish the functionality and final characteristics of each board.

11/29/2022

Technology developed for the Framework project deployed in mass timber shake table test in San Diego.

Mass timber is seen as a potential solution for decarbonizing the building industry.

10/18/2022

07/15/2022

Will Portland finally get a mass-timber high-rise? Plans for Sandy Pine, a 12-story, 125-foot...

07/15/2022

Workers built a nine-acre wooden roof to cover the airport's main terminal. Now they're getting ready to move it.

05/10/2022

MVRDV and Fugger Foundation are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei social housing project, the world's oldest housing complex.

04/07/2022

There are many reasons to bet on the future of the mass timber industry, writes Curtis Robinhold, executive director of the Port of Portland, which is a member of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition. Mass timber can help meet the needs of Oregonians, with products built by urban and rural Oregonians, a...

01/03/2022

In this study, a prescriptive seismic design procedure for post-tensioned mass timber rocking wall lateral force–resisting systems is proposed. Unlike performance-based design approaches that employ nonlinear analysis, this procedure utilizes ...

12/19/2021

Our guide to 15 of the most popular types of wood and wood products has links to hundreds of inspirational examples for architecture and design projects.

12/19/2021

Cross-laminated timber, made from gluing solid-sawn lumber together, is used in more than half of all U.S. mass timber projects.