Designing and integrating fire protection systems into mass-timber buildings presents unique challenges, even for the most ...

Our goal is to implement a complete system that removes barriers, lowers costs, and reduces risk for mass timber construction. Team members will work in four areas to implement these actions. The ...

helping introduce various types of mass timber projects to the San Francisco area in recent years. These include some of the first CLT installations, the first multi-story glulam post and beam ...

Darian Sweeney, who represents Bloomington Developments, says the structure on Cambrian Heights Drive is made of mass timber— great stretches of beams glued together and used in different ...

It can span much better than concrete and mass timber ... But for all its advantages, wood has one real disadvantage: it burns. That's why Ascent beams were sent to the U.S. Forest Services ...

Mass timber, including cross-laminated timber, is an engineered product. Wood is bound together to make it stronger over a ...

Global demand for wood as a building material is expected to quadruple by 2050. Demand is being driven in part by the rising popularity of mass timber for its aesthetics and eco friendliness. One of ...

However, mass timber, which is engineered off-site from multiple layers of wood into large panels, columns and beams, can save considerable time and labour during construction, he said. Mass-timber ...