Not so long ago, it was exceptionally rare to see timber buildings more than six stories tall. But new engineered wood technologies like cross-laminated timber (CLT), glued laminated wood (gluluam), ...

Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat designates the 284-ft-tall Ascent in Milwaukee as the world’s tallest timber structure The 25-story Ascent is only 4 ft taller than the next-tallest timber ...

Sitting atop the Yankee Hill neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is Ascent, a 284-foot luxury apartment building made mostly of wood. The first of its kind, Ascent is also the tallest ...

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The Framework Project, LLC announced that the company has successfully completed two significant fire tests on Cross-laminated Timber as a building material, “demonstrating for the first time the ...

According to a new study co-authored by PCL Construction, DCI Engineers, and Weber Thompson, which all have offices and are active in the Seattle area, building a hybrid mass timber high-rise is now ...

MILWAUKEE--The results are in, and Milwaukee can now claim to be the home of the world's tallest timber building at 284 feet, which beats the current record holder in height by 4 feet. The Council on ...

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has designated the 284-ft-tall Ascent in Milwaukee as the world’s tallest timber and concrete hybrid structure. The 25-story Ascent has broken height ...

Though it may be as difficult to locate on the map as it is to pronounce, the minuscule Swedish city of Skellefteå has as of late begun to rival the cultural fare of Stockholm, Malmö, and other cities ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Construction was underway in Oakland for a first-of-its-kind high rise apartment building described as the tallest beamless mass plywood panel structure in the world. The 19-story, ...

Many Portland renters are bracing themselves for a rent hike that could price them out of their homes. Three decades ago, the federal government launched the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to offer ...