Paul Freeman was just another college kid sitting in a lecture hall in 1977 when he heard his calling.”It became clear that my boyhood home with its weathered dark beams, gunstock posts, and ...

Roundwood timber framing means working with materials sourced straight from the forest, using nature’s shapes to create the structure, employing techniques that can easily be learnt and passed on, and ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

Timber-frame construction puts gravity and lateral loads into fewer, larger members. It relies on exposed beams and open spans as defining architectural features. That differs from conventional wood ...

video: Researchers from ETH Zurich are using a new method for digital timber con-struction in a real project for the first time. The load-bearing timber modules, which are prefabricated by robots, ...

Environmental sustainability was the main factor for using specially treated lumber, instead of steel and concrete, for developer Ann Pieper Eisenbrown's newly opened Walker's Point apartment building ...