On January 29, the owner/developer Hines stated that it had completed construction on a three-story, 92,000-sf office and residential building in East Austin, Texas. The building, known as T3 ATX ...
The 190-ft-tall Brock Commons Tallwood House at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, is the tallest mass-timber frame in the Western Hemisphere. In the U.S., Brock, which has ...
The Canadian Province of British Columbia is updating its building code to expand the use of mass timber in building construction. The code will allow for encapsulated mass-timber construction (EMTC) ...
The International Code Council has announced that the 14 tall mass timber code change proposals unofficially passed the ballot for inclusion in the 2021 International Building Code. The voting results ...
New California building codes have been enacted that would allow for high-rise mass-timber buildings to be constructed in the state. The ruling came as new construction and applications for ...
The use of mass timber in British Columbia is moving up and expanding to schools, libraries and other construction. The province says it’s making building-code changes allowing for the use of mass ...
California's new building code will force developers to take closer looks at innovative construction methods like cross-laminated timber, according to experts. "For high-rises in the 12- to 24-story ...
This article originally appeared as part of our January 2019 print issue in the timber feature. After over two years of testing and several rounds of deliberation, the International Code Council (ICC) ...
Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...
Mass-timber elements of the four-story Albina Yard office building in Portland, Oregon, serve as both structure and interior finish material. Read more about this project by Portland-based LEVER ...