by Web Editor | Sep 2, 2015 | News
Timber’s Transformation: An Old Building Material Is Reborn We ask: If the 19th century modern building material technology was associated with steel and the 20th century with concrete, could the 21st be the century of “MCT,” mass construction timber? Wood, one of the...
by Web Editor | Apr 17, 2015 | News
The American Wood Council has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct research on the fire performance of mass timber buildings. AWC will partner with the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) Fire...
by Web Editor | Sep 5, 2014 | News
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) BioPreferred program, which designates bio-based product categories for preferred federal procurement, has opened to wood products as of yesterday. This means wood products manufacturers can now apply for a BioPreferred...