Meta and Microsoft Latest Mass Timber Converts

The two giant tech companies better known for software than hard timber are using the material for new data centers. For massive technology companies like Meta (many of us still call it Facebook) and Microsoft, it’s usually all about bits and bytes but each of these two giants is now using mass timber construction technology […]

USDA Upping Its Mass Timber Investments

As the soft housing market in the U.S. is impacting the mass timber movement, the Forest Service is stepping in to help. “Mass timber and CLT have been priorities for creating new markets for wood products,” said Brian Brashaw, assistant director of the Wood Innovations Program for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. “Since […]

Mass Timber’s Latest Benefit: It’s Antimicrobial

In addition to all the pluses of mass timber construction a new study finds it also is better when it comes to containing germs. The old cliché that wood construction was not hygienic, especially for structures in the healthcare field, is about to get turned upside down. New research coming out of the University of […]

New York City Gets Its First Completed Mass Timber Structure

Much of the rest of the country has been into mass timber for years but now the nation’s largest city is in the game too. It took the 2022 New York City Building Code to formally recognize CLT (cross-laminated timber) as a permitted building material but now a five-story apartment building in the Clinton Hill […]

Giant CNC Panel Processing Machine a Show Star

Standing 18 feet tall and weighing more than 40 tons, C.R. Onsrud’s machine was a standout on the IWF show floor. “All of our machines are beefy,” said Rich Guerin, director of operations and controls for C.R. Onsrud. “But the High Rail dominated the floor of the recent International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta. Visiting manufacturers […]

VIDEO—Digitally Imaging Wood, Knots and All

Tokyo, Japan—Researchers at the University of Tokyo and other locations have developed a way to generate graphics that model the annual ring pattern of solid wood, along with natural elements like knots. Although wood texturing is a well-studied topic, there have been few previous attempts at modeling knots inside the wood texture, according to a […]

World’s Tallest Timber Tower Rises in Milwaukee

Milwaukee, WI—As construction continues on Ascent, a 25-story mass timber tower in downtown Milwaukee, the building’s silhouette is beginning to rise above its surroundings. Two years of engineering development, permitting, and architectural design led to the groundbreaking late last year for construction of its concrete base. Originally planned as a 23-story tower, the building height […]