Skyscraper-filled cityscapes bring to mind the sleek look of steel and glass, but the use of mass timber in building is putting a softer spin on skylines. Besides being a sustainable material, wood ...

Bier Stube, a longtime campus bar that closed in September 2024, will soon give way to Columbus’ first mass-timber high-rise building. Harbor Bay Ventures, an Illinois-based timber development company ...

Framework, a 12-story tall wood building planned for Portland, Ore., has been placed on hold for the foreseeable future. The structure was billed as the first wood high-rise in the U.S. Initiated in ...

When the first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1885 — a modest ten storeys — people were afraid to walk under the steel-framed building, fearing it would collapse. Today, as towers made of wood go ...

A material that's been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. Companies behind these "mass timber" projects say that wood is a ...

The operating life and life span of buildings are often far apart. If a property is no longer fit for purpose, it is usually ...