A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with.

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Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Although wood is commonly used as a finish material in nonresidential buildings, more and more Building Teams are specifying wood as a structural material to accompany steel or concrete—or sometimes ...

Architects are in a proof-of-concept race to construct sustainable wood high-rises. Oct. 31 at 6:30 a.m. SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest timber ...

The inspiration for this column came to me one Sunday morning as I was greeting people at our church, where my wife and I are ushers. In between people dashing through the door to avoid the drops of ...

Sweden's Stockholm Wood City is being built largely from timber. The construction industry produces 37% of the world's carbon emissions. Building using wood is one way to reduce the sector's climate ...