While the “findings show promise for hardwood CLT in terms of mechanical effectiveness, lumber supply, and aesthetic appeal,” ...

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Continued advances in cross laminated timber (CLT) and wood framing techniques now make wood high-rises practical. A key enabling technology are adhesives. Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill ...

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 ...

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) has been dubbed the concrete of the future. As a highly resilient form of engineered wood made by gluing layers of solid-sawn lumber together, CLT is reshaping how we ...

Tad Bradley looks at Boise Fire Station 13's innovative design by using cross-laminated timber to increase operational ...

Design professionals, real estate developers and builders alike are advocating for a relatively new way of using one of the world’s oldest building materials—wood—in large-scale commercial and ...

High-rise construction is polarizing in U.S. cities, and faces several barriers. The costof building towers is higher per square foot than for low-rise buildings; the carbon emissions from concrete- ...

Waugh Thistleton's Watts Grove project raises some questions and they deliver some answers. TreeHugger loves wood construction. We have to reduce the embodied energy of our buildings and building with ...