Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 16—ORONOCO TOWNSHIP, Minn. — Realtor Nate Cunningham could marvel for hours at a home's great room. Your eyes gaze upward to ...

Driven by demand for low-carbon buildings and enabled by advances in the manufacturing of engineered wood products, mass timber buildings are rapidly growing larger in size and capturing greater ...

A new type of construction process using layered wood as a substitute for materials like concrete and steel that’s considered eco-friendly is becoming more popular in the U.S., especially the Pacific ...

We’ve been using wood to build things for a very long time. According to the recently discovered remains of a half-a-million-year-old wooden structure in Africa, we’ve been building with wood before ...

Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

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 ...

Stockholm Wood City is swapping polluting steel and concrete for a more climate-friendly construction material: timber.

Residents of Milwaukee may have noticed a recent surge in mass timber construction projects, and with it, a prevailing narrative around the unmatched sustainability of wood when compared to other ...

With environmental benefits and lower labor costs, mass timber has grown into a market that could rival steel and concrete in the construction industry. By Keith Schneider SPOKANE, Wash. — Although it ...

How does school design influence the process of teaching and learning? Understanding current educational design trends and methodologies is key to designing healthy spaces for students to develop ...

Milwaukee’s proposed 25-story Ascent tower sounds like a conventional housing project. Scheduled to open in September 2022, it offers 250+ apartments with views of downtown Milwaukee and Lake Michigan ...