NYC's dazzling first 'mass timber' home sells for $7M: The seller and transforming architect Aaron Schiller, of Schiller Projects, blessed this 21-foot-wide home ...
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You can still buy a sofa for $399 — here’s why you may not want to: Over time, home furnishings have experienced a decline in quality. Here's how to find pieces ...
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Furniture's quality has declined, but here's what you can do about it: The quality of mass-market furniture in the US has plummeted, but designers and sellers ...
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Plans for a mass-timber building pivot to steel girders and concrete : Leaside Innovation Centre to house wet labs instead of offices
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Investors bank on African timber for sustainable building boom: A surge in construction activity in Africa is drawing a new breed of investors eyeing mass timber ...
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Peter Whitelaw and Leanne Sawatzky: Climate opportunity: everyone, everything, and soon
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Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes: Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames?
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How to Choose the Best Paint for Your Kitchen Cabinets: Refreshing your cabinet color may be the quickest, most budget-friendly way to give your kitchen the ...
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Waugh Thistleton named Architect of the Year in AJ Architecture Awards 2023: The practice, which this year completed central London’s tallest engineered-timber ...
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The Dreamiest Home Goods To Buy From Anthropologie’s 30%-Off Black Friday Sale: It’s a great time to stock up on big-ticket items like furniture — and the sale ...
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Wooden high-rise in Yokohama grows Japan’s timber ambitions: Port Plus, which was finished last year, is composed mainly of 540 wooden rigid cross-joints.
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All-Wood Tower Near Tokyo Fuses Modern Design, Japanese Tradition: Obayashi’s Port Plus building in Yokohama unites contemporary mass timber construction ...
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New policy from the US Army Corps of Engineers mandates all vertical construction projects must consider mass timber and cross-laminated timber in design ... Show more
Andrew Petter: B.C. at a critical point as it moves from value extraction to value addition
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This downtown apartment tower plan may soon undergo city review for a 2024 groundbreaking
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Canada should embrace mass timber construction to cut emissions, RBC says: Mass timber has huge potential in reducing the carbon footprints of buildings ...
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Would you live in a wood high-rise? An experiment in green architecture.: Architects are experimenting with a greener way to build.
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A shift in how we build commercial buildings could be a boon for East Texas: Globally, mass timber construction projects are expected to reach more than 24 ...
texastribune.org/2023/10/19/mass-timber-trend-east-texas-forest/
5 startups making the billion-dollar mass timber construction market sustainable: From timber finance to circular solutions, these entrepreneurs show how new ...
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Low-rise is a sweet spot for these office buildings: Boutique-style office spaces ideal for workers and neighbourhoods
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Architects must re-educate themselves on timber sourcing
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A call to arms: mass timber extensions can help pay for a retrofit revolution: UK law underpins a promise that we will be net zero in carbon emissions by 2050 ...
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How much hardwood flooring costs, and how to save: The National Realtor Association’s 2022 Remodeling Impact Report states that homeowners who install new wood ...
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The 10 Best Dressers of 2023: Expert Buying Guide: Check out the best dressers, from Arhaus to AllModern.
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Scientists use naturally-occurring polymer to modify wood and boost biomass conversion
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The Home Front: A new amphitheatre for Vancouver's PNE: Vancouver cultural site gets redesign. New amphitheatre for the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) to ...
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Frisco's wood beam structured office project has topped out: Contractors top out construction of Frisco's wooden-beam built office project ...
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Drive-thru only? Mustang Creek connection to Spaghetti Warehouse? Your questions answered
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How bamboo and denim are becoming the 'new luxury' in automobiles: Rolls-Royce is experimenting with new materials in its vehicles.
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Sweden is building the world’s largest "wood city": The use of timber has been found to produce significantly lower carbon emissions ...
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Genetically modified trees could mean more sustainable wood: Gene editing can streamline the process of wood fiber production, by modifying poplar trees to ...
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‘Like entering a forest’: Inside Asia’s largest timber building: Set across six stories and 468,000 square feet of floor space, Nanyang Technological ...
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New hybrid timber floor system that could be used in tall buildings to be tested in B.C.
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How A 10-Storey Wooden Building Survived More Than 100 Earthquakes: It will sway but it will survive. This 10-storey wooden building in California's San Diego ...
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How A 10-Story Wood Building Survived More Than 100 Earthquakes: One sunny morning last month, an earthquake jolted northeast San Diego. Minutes later ...
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A counterintuitive climate defence: Harvesting forests to combat emissions: We should consider logging some older forests before they are killed by drought ...
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Timber firm to create 100 Wolverhampton jobs after other business announces redundancies
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What scientists discovered after simulating an earthquake on a 10-story wood building
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Researchers have successfully simulated a high magnitude earthquake on the largest building ever tested, and the structure survived. https://abcn.ws/3BdVKov
Vaughn Palmer: Eby warns forestry sector to fix its problems or government will: Opinion: B.C. government is demanding companies doing value-added production get ...
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This Alternative-to-Hardwood Kitchen Flooring Is Popular for a Reason: A survey from Houzz shows that 40 percent of homeowners want engineered flooring ...
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Please Recycle This Building When Not in Use: Designers and architects are creating a new generation of buildings that emphasize reusable structures ...
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UBC students construct one of Canada’s first ‘carbon-minimal’ hempcrete buildings
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Utah’s first large-scale mass-timber building signals new trend in sustainable construction
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Immaculate family house is ready to move straight into: The three-bedroom property at Retallick Meadows has driveway parking, a garage, and a large ...
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Things you should never buy for kitchen, according to designer: To create a dream kitchen on a budget, people should avoid wasting money on items like custom ...
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The great pine revival: pine furniture is back — from knotty floors to salvaged kitchens
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Look inside the UK's lowest carbon office building after the plans were approved: The building's timber frame predicted to store 4,000 tonnes of carbon ...
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Engineered wood is stronger, fights climate change by capturing CO2: With the world focused on addressing climate change, scientists have had to get creative ...
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Engineered wood grows stronger while trapping carbon dioxide: Rice University scientists have figured out a way to engineer wood to trap carbon dioxide through a ...
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Get cozy next to a fire with the right Solo stove: Solo Stove offers a vast range of accessories for all of its products, such as windscreens ...
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Fears of fire after Grenfell tragedy are holding back switch to sustainable building materials like engineered timber, architect says
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Quick Glance: Architect expresses concern over fire risks and delays switch to sustainable building materials like engineered timber
- The fear of fires after the Grenfell tragedy is delaying the switch to more sustainable building materials, according to a leading architect.
- Mr Waugh is the designer of the new six-storey Black and White Building in east London, which is the UK's tallest office block constructed from engineered timber.
- There is no consensus among experts regarding the fire risks of engineered timber.
- Building with timber is quicker and cleaner compared to concrete.
A downtown mass timber apartment tower plan is growing. It would be among the world's tallest.
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Big lumber on the Toronto waterfront: George Brown College’s new Limberlost Place is a spectacle of mass timber construction superlatives
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8 kitchen renovation ideas to help you get a dream kitchen within your budget: Kitchen ideas to update your kitchen. Find out how to get a cheap kitchen ...
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Rice University's new dorm wing built using mass timber construction: The new wing of Rice's Hanszen College is Houston's first collegiate residential mass...
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The Best Storage Benches for a Satisfyingly Organized Entryway: If you feel pangs of entryway shame whenever you entertain, it's time to do something about it ...
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Building materials maker getting closer to customers with $9M Colleton County project
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Engineered wood generates electricity as it dries : By tinkering with fine details within wood, engineers in Sweden have come up with an interesting new way of ...
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Toronto development promises a low-carbon, high-design apartment building : The 12-storey building will have its structure made largely in a factory ...
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Professionals install herringbone floors in a variety of materials.: To create a herringbone pattern in floors, spaces are measured, planks are are cut ...
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He came to the Bay Area to form a startup. Now he’s trying to solve the housing crisis
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Modern living: Kitchen, bathroom design trends 2023: Amid the pandemic, designers predicted homeowners would be installing walls to create coveted private spaces ...
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