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Saving America’s Forests One Wooden Building At A Time

If the invention of steel forged the high-rise, the iconic building’s future may be pine. This fall, the future will be under construction in the United States. A 12-story high-rise built primarily of wood is set to go up in Portland, Ore., like giant Lincoln...

U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition Winners Revealed

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, in partnership with the Softwood Lumber Board and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council, recently announced the winners of the U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition. The two winning development teams were granted a...

Timber’s Transformation: An Old Building Material Is Reborn

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...

USDA Offers $2 Million For Taller Timber Building Designs

A competition run by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a $2 million prize for new design ideas that will allow taller wood structures to be built in the country. The Tall Wood Building Prize Competition, supported by the Softwood Lumber...