Companies behind these “mass timber” projects say that wood is a lower-carbon alternative to steel or concrete and brings ...

This is a fairly simple build if you have the shop tools, and if you only have hand tools available, is still quite doable. The blocks consist of square wooden blocks with holes drilled into them ...

Being the master woodsmith he is, he decided to build a dust collection system out of wood. Everything worked out in the end, but in creating wooden impellers and blowers, he discovered his ...

A wood building material can be used in high-rise structures, giving it the potential to replace materials that are bad for ...

Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden columns and beams instead of the standard steel and concrete. The 44 ...

wood and steel column, would protect against Tokyo's regular earthquakes, it said. The projected cost of the building is about 600bn yen (£4.02bn; $5.6bn), about twice the cost of a conventional ...