Harvard Gets Its First Mass Timber Building

Add one of the nation’s most prestigious universities to the list of mass timber proponents with the completion of the David Rubenstein Treehouse. The 55,000-square-foot facility, part of Harvard’s new Enterprise Research Center in Allston, MA, was designed by Studio Gang. The firm said it looked to the “architecture of trees” for the new structure, […]

New Study: Home Improvement Spending to Decline Next Year

A new study by the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University projects that spending on home improvement and repairs by homeowners will decline at an accelerating rate through the first half of 2024. While homeowners continue to spend on repairing and improving where they live this year, a new study from a prestigious […]