In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of those materials were truly necessary to build houses, buildings and bridges?

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Construction workers secure an engineered wood column onto the deck of the 12th floor of the ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Picture yourself in a windswept forest. Leaves are rustling and trunks are creaking ...

Contrary to its name, the Stone Age wasn’t just about stone. The epoch also known as the Neolithic Period also ushered in some of the first structures ever created from wood. The scientific study of ...

This week’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in the Philippines came with scenes familiar to New Zealanders: collapsed buildings, shattered facades and streets strewn with rubble. Earthquakes of such force ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

Detroit — In an exhibit featuring the durability and sustainability of using timber to construct large buildings, it is, naturally, the pyrotechnics that cause the most surprise. It's just a video — ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

Below are two of the 40 projects. To see the fill list of projects, visit Top 40 office building projects for 2025. Cleveland Foundation Headquarters, Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland Foundation ...

As visitors head into downtown Vancouver through the city’s False Creek Flats neighborhood, the first thing they’ll see is the Hive: a 10-story office building built out of wood and shaped like a ...