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 ...

A wood floor consists of a finished floor laid over a subfloor supported by joists and beams. Joists may have solid or diagonal bridging between them to provide extra strength. Joists, beams, posts ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

Having recently validated assumptions about floor-system capacities in its timber-and-concrete structural model for a 42-story residential building, architect-engineer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is ...

Timber floor systems have attracted increasing attention due to their environmental benefits and distinctive acoustic characteristics. Recent advances in construction methodologies and material ...

Designing and building the first mass timber commercial office building in the Philadelphia metropolitan area required intense coordination to combine mass timber with multiple structural systems.

Lured by their superior sustainable qualities, high-rise developers around the world are increasingly turning to timber materials for construction, and a newly completed office tower in Australia is ...

Kelly has over 10 years of experience writing about home design and improvement for many prominent publications. She also spent several years working at a tech startup for an interior design game ...