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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 ...

Earn Your Graduate Certificate in Timber Building Design at One of the Best Structural Engineering Schools in the Nation. Sustainable construction is the use of renewable and recyclable materials in ...

Heading up Frank and Brenda Baker's driveway in Blissfield, Mich., the first thing you notice about their bungalow-styled house is the timber truss supporting the front porch. With its weathered wood ...

Tom and Lucy Rutherford learned about timber frame construction in the 1970s, driving through the countryside in Bucks County, Pa., and admiring the barns that had been converted into houses. Years ...

Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber ...

If you’re planning a self build, one of the biggest decisions you’ll make is what structural system to use. For most people, the options that spring to mind are either traditional brick and block or a ...

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 ...

In Colonial times, they did it the old-fashioned way. They built houses with massive skeletons of wooden beams–and no nails. This type of construction–called timber framing–was an import from the Old ...

Pei‘s next project is to prepare the rocking-wall system proposal for the 2028 update of ASCE/SEI 7, the design bible for buildings. In his spare time, Shiling Pei watches woodworking videos on ...