The Boss Goes All-In on Wood
A new museum dedicated to rock superstar Bruce Springsteen will feature mass timber construction prominently. He’s more accustomed to fine wooden guitars, but Bruce Springsteen’s new legacy museum housing his archives will be a mass timber building which will feature some of its structure left exposed at the ceiling and in the supporting columns. It […]
14-Acre Mass Timber Structure Centerpiece of Expo 2025 Osaka
A circular wooden structure more than 2,200 feet in diameter will be the focal point of the upcoming World’s Fair in Japan. The Mass Timber world will have a new start in 2025 when a giant wooden structure will encircle the entire Expo 2025 Osaka World’s Fair. Created by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, it will […]
New York City Latest to Offer Mass Timber Assistance
As cities across the country and around the world look to mass timber construction, New York City is now embracing its use. New York City has become the latest to look into the use of mass timber construction, instituting an assistance program under its non-profit Economic Development Corporation. The program seeks to raise awareness of […]
8th Annual Mass Timber Conference Set for April 2024
As the mass timber movement continues to gain acceptance around the world, the industry will gather in Portland, OR next spring for its annual conference. Eight years ago it was more of a cult than a mainstream building movement but now the mass timber industry has gained widespread acceptance throughout the world and so, its next […]
California Builders Have a New Challenge: Embodied Carbon Laws
Already the state with the strictest environmental laws in the country, California has enacted new mandatory measures in its building codes to reduce embodied carbon. California has become the first state in the country to enact new building codes that limit carbon emissions in the construction, remodeling, or adaptive use of certain structures. According to […]
Nashville Latest City to Get Good with Wood
Nashville has become the latest municipality to embrace the movement to build large mass timber structures. It’s music to the ears of the lumber industry. Joining cities and states around the country, Nashville city government has approved the construction of high-rise timber buildings, up to 18 stories. Known as Music City, Nashville had previously limited […]
A Mass Timber Twist: New Canadian Office Tower Features an Entire Bamboo Forest
High-rise structures using mass timber construction are becoming ever more common but a new 43-story tower in Vancouver puts a new spin on it with its own bamboo forest. As more and more builders are using mass timber materials to construct new buildings, a Canadian company using a Japanese architect has reversed the process, placing […]
More Mass Timber Coming to Atlanta
When you come to the next International Woodworking Fair in Atlanta in 2024 you may be able to see more of the burgeoning mass timber movement firsthand. The City of Atlanta is set to get its second mass timber structure, providing showgoers to next year’s International Woodworking Fair a chance to see more of this […]
The World’s Largest Wooden City Set for Stockholm, Sweden
In yet another benchmark moment for the Mass Timber movement, construction will start in Sweden in 2025 on what is being called the “world’s largest wooden city.” It will span more than 60 acres and include over 2,000 homes and 7,000 offices space and when the first phase opens in 2027, Stockholm Wood City will […]
Mass Timber: Are Wood Buildings the Next Frontier for Sustainability?
A new University of Washington campus building that uses Mass Timber construction could represent the future of new carbon offset practices. A pilot program at the University of Washington that uses Mass Timber construction could represent the future of new carbon offset practices. The program sold offsets against the carbon stored in the structure of a […]