Fire in timber advances at a rate of 0.7 to 0.8 millimeters per minute. If a CLT wall is 100 mm, it would end up being consumed after more than 2 hours, even if it were untreated wood. This ...

A timber factory prototype, for example, shows how cross-laminated timber walls can support interlocking, cellular insulated long-span panels to create a naturally lit, column-free 215,000-square ...

Jeff Kasella, owner of Minnesota-based Polished Concrete Plus, has been involved in the concrete business since he was 13-years-old, helping his brother-in-law lay blocks and place foundations.

Because concrete cannot be eliminated from larger buildings, Windmill is exploring the use of lower-carbon concrete that either incorporates recycled material or uses carbon embedding technology ...

Concrete manufacturing is the world’s third-largest source of greenhouse gases, and harvesting timber — a renewable resource — has a lower environmental cost than mining the materials to ...

Mass Timber Construction Market. Dublin, June 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Mass Timber Construction - Global Strategic Business Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering ...

Architects and builders are increasingly using “mass timber”—an engineered wood product similar in strength to concrete and steel—to build multistory buildings.

On the sustainability side, Gensler Design Director Michael Waddell said using timber rather than concrete and steel typically emits about 30% less carbon, and the figure for carbon savings can be ...

Awards Top 25 Newsmakers 2024 ENR 2023 Top 25 Newsmakers Shiling Pei: Proved the Resilient Seismic Performance of a Novel Tall-Timber Rocking-wall System in Unprecedented Shake-Table Tests ...

The glazing, set in robust hardwood frames, is screened with storey-high louvre shutters; they modify the quality of daylight entering the rooms, contribute to privacy and, with their fine detail and ...