A Chicago-area company plans to build a 13-story apartment building in the University District out of wood, making it the country's second-tallest timber-framed building. Harbor Bay Ventures is ...

Learn advanced design of timber structures. The advent of mass timber and tall wood buildings has brought timber design back into the forefront of structural engineering and architecture. This ...

Across B.C., buildings were responsible for 11 percent in 2015. Yet according to Green, Vancouver has been slow to adopt the idea of tall wood-frame buildings even as it pursues the title of the ...

Now that Obayashi has developed Japan’s first timber column that can survive flames for three hours, pure-wood buildings as tall as 15 or more stories can be erected under the Building Standards ...