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 […]
Hacker Named National Sales Manager for JLT Clamps
The long-time company veteran will manage multiple areas for the New York State-based company. Christopher J. Hacker has been with the parent company, James L. Taylor Manufacturing Co., for 35 years and in his new role will oversee sales, marketing, service and growth for the JLT Clamps machinery line for North America, which is manufactured […]
MasterBrand Buying Woodmark, Creating $3.6 Billion Cabinet Giant
Two of the biggest players in the kitchen, bath and home cabinetry sector are coming together in a deal valued at $2.4 billion. The all-stock transaction will create one of the largest resources in the business with a combined operation of more than 20 manufacturing facilities and over 21,000 employees. The new company will use […]
Lot Supplies Hit Five-Year High but Still Off Historical Levels
New data shows the supply of building lots in the second quarter of the year was up 20.6 percent over a year ago. Zonda’s New Home Lot Supply Index reported its fourth consecutive quarterly increase but the research firm said the market remains “significantly undersupplied,” a condition that has prevailed since 2017. The LSI tracks […]
Check Out Seattle’s Zoo for the Newest Use of Mass Plywood
A new 12,000-square-foot pavilion in the Woodland Park Zoo in Washington State is nearing completion. A new trailhead in the more-than-100-year-old zoo leading to the mass plywood pavilion is being finished up, the latest use of this new construction method using engineered wood. “Designed to be one of the most innovative mass plywood pavilions, the […]
Oregon Joins LA in Recycling Fire-damaged Trees
Over 1.57 million board feet of lumber is being put up for sale by the state’s Bureau of Land Management. Following similar actions from the city of Los Angeles after its devastating wildfires earlier this year, fire-stricken lumber from across 250 public areas in Baker County, southwest of Durkee, is being offered for sale. The […]
These Are the 11 Biggest Houses in the World According to Architectural Digest
They come from all over the world and if you’re thinking the White House or Hearst Castle, you’re thinking small. We’re not quite sure how they figured it out, but famed design magazine Architectural Digest recently came up with its list of the largest homes in the world and while America has always been considered […]
Harvard Confirms Remodeling Forecasts
Continuing what we’ve seen from other studies, this is the latest outlook from Harvard’s prestigious housing studies program. Oftentimes, research studies present contradictory findings on any given subject. Currently, that’s not the case with the latest forecasts on the remodeling sector. The new Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) from Harvard’s Remodeling Futures Program at […]
Furniture Retailers Showing Surprising Strength
It may just be consumers pushing up purchases in advance of tariff-related price hikes but many of the big chains showed better numbers for their most recent quarters. The furniture business has been in a post-pandemic hangover going on three years, its sales impacted not just by consumers turning their attention more to out-of-home spending […]
Tariffs Finally Hit Canadian Wood Shipments to the U.S.
Everyone’s been waiting to see when the bill would come due for the Trump duties on Canadian Lumber. July was the month. Prices of Canadian lumber coming into the U.S. are as much as 60 percent higher than they were just a year ago as tariffs instituted by the Trump administration are fully taking hold […]