Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden columns and beams instead of the standard steel and concrete. The 44-meter ...

Early detection of wood coating deterioration to better maintain wooden structures Date: April 17, 2025 Source: ... which they employed to build a model to predict the extent of deterioration.

Step into the world of primitive construction as I build a fully wooden underground house from the ground up. Using only natural materials and age-old techniques, this structure offers warmth ...

Explore the impressive craft of creating a tensegrity wood structure using expert woodworking joints without a single screw. Watch as intricate joints come together seamlessly, forming a structure ...

High-rises built with wood are showing up as sustainable building options. Cross laminated timber can be used in high-rise structures, as a replacement for materials with a high carbon footprint.

No timber-clad tower has ever reached so high. Down Under, a cloud-scraping pillar of a building has received the go-ahead from local authorities in Western Australia. If completed, the structure ...

The tall building was subjected to simulated earthquakes on world's largest ‘shake table’ A structure stands after an earthquake simulation by engineers from the University of California San ...

Europe also has buildings supported by wooden beams, and a 25-story, mass-timber mixed-use building opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this summer. The architect said he chose wood for its esthetic ...

The pair of crossed logs may be the oldest evidence of early humans building with wood, nearly half a million years old, according to a study published Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2023 in the journal Nature.

An excavation team uncovers a wooden structure found on a riverbed near a waterfall in Zambia in 2019. The pair of crossed logs may be the oldest evidence of early humans building with wood.