Technical

Fire Testing Completed on Full-Scale Mass Timber Building with Promising Results

By Kenneth Bland While heavy timber construction (Type IV in U.S. building codes) is one of the oldest wood construction methods...

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The Evolution of CLT Manufacturing in North America

By Patrick Chouinard While North America is in its infancy in mass timber use, Europe is well into a second-generation of Cross-Laminated...

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Atlantic Mid-rise Wood Case Study

This is the first case study of its kind that analyzes four different building types of equal structural and architectural design and...

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Using Wood Door Frames for Fire-Rated Openings

By Cory Hollenhorst Designers and architects are often met with the challenge of maintaining their design vision when building code...

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