Living Timber Is the Latest Building Material
The building materials business has moved to its latest iteration: using live trees in new building construction. Using wood in building new structures may be far more sustainable than other materials but there’s no getting around the fact that the trees that supply the wood still have to be harvested… until now. Terreform One, a […]
Has Mass Timber Building Become Too Popular for the Supply?
With a record number of projects under construction in the U.S. builders say they are running into supply problems. The Mass Timber movement may be getting so popular that some people in the industry are worried about having enough timber for all the projects currently under construction. The online newsletter Bisnow reports that there are […]
MJB Wood Group Opens New Facility in Tijuana, Mexico
The opening of its new facility brings to seven the number of locations it has in Mexico. MJB Wood Group is strengthening its North American supply chain and manufacturing capabilities with this new facility, allowing it to better serve the marketplace, This expansion, through a strategic long-term agreement with Bucher Industries, marks MJB Wood Group’s […]
Words on Wood Podcast Returns for Fourth Season
The American Hardwood Export Council and design journal Disegno series is back for another year. Lots of people in the wood industry talk about wood. But these people really talk about wood. Words on Wood, the podcast hosted by the American Hardwood Export Council and Disegno, the design journal, is set to return for its […]
The Pine Tree State Gets Its First Mass Timber Buildings
Maine is well known for its vast forests and wooded lands but it’s never had a mass timber building… up until now. It’s known as the Pine Tree State in recognition of its millions of acres of forestry so the recent opening of a pair of mass timber buildings on the campus of Bowdoin College […]
Ecogate Says Its New Airflow Gates Do It All
If you need more than simple opening and closing functionality the new Precision Airflow Gates are an answer. When your blast gate needs go beyond fundamental operational functionality, Precision Airflow Gates says it offers a higher degree of precision, critical for certain industry demands. The latest development from Ecogate, the new Precision Airflow Gates are […]
New York City New Building Filings Hit Record High
New York City is sometimes an outlier to the rest of the nation but a record number of new building filings is good news for the whole country. New construction permits for New York City for the fourth quarter of 2023 represented the highest quarterly tally for the 2020s decade so far, according to just-released […]
Interior Designers Are the New Architects
They always were involved in home design but increasingly interior designers are creating the houses themselves. For home and commercial builders used to working with traditional architects there’s increasingly another player in the creation of new houses and other commercial structures: the interior designer. TV host Bobby Berk, an Emmy Award-winning designer well known to […]
US Homebuilders Say Things Are Looking Up for ‘24
The construction industry still has a long way to go to get back to its boom days but new data suggests builders are getting more optimistic. Increasing consumer demand coupled with small drops in mortgage rates are all pointing in the same direction for US homebuilders: Up. New statistics from the National Association of Home […]
Flat-Front Kitchen Cabinets a Key Trend for ‘24: Zillow
Zillow, the home home-buying online service, revealed some of the things it says potential homebuyers are looking for in their new homes. Every home buyer has their own favorites when it comes to what they want in their next home, but Zillow pointed to design trends it sees for the new year, including several of […]