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Gelephu International Airport in Gelephu, The Kingdom of Bhutan. Rendering © BIG

BIG unveils its design for Bhutan’s second international airport, scheduled to open in 2029

Gelephu International Airport resembles “a stylized mountain range,” with a modular diagrid structure made of locally sourced glulam timber and adorned with Bhutanese woodcarvings...

March 7, 2025

Photo © LPA

Embodied carbon reduction: The next step in corporate sustainability

Feb. 28, 2025

Pictured: Cleveland Foundation Headquarters, Cleveland, Ohio. The Barbara Haas Rawson Community Stair is the centerpiece of the Cleveland Foundation’s headquarters, blending mass timber construction with a warm, transparent, and welcoming design

Two new mass timber office buildings for 2025

Jan. 24, 2025

The Quinte Health Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital in Picton, Ontario, Canada, will be the first all mass timber acute care hospital in North America. Rendering courtesy HDR

Healthcare Facilities

North America’s first all mass timber acute care hospital breaks ground

Jan. 6, 2025

Wood beams

Mass timber requirements added to Heights & Areas Calculator

Dec. 30, 2024

Rendering courtesy Leers Weinzapfel Associates

National Museum of Forest Service History building will itself be an exhibit

Dec. 2, 2024

Topping off construction of Brookhaven (Ga.) City Centre with mass timber component. Image; Courtesy of McCarthy

Mass timber achieves ‘firsts’ in three more markets

Oct. 25, 2024

Northglenn, a Denver suburb, opens a net zero, all-electric city hall with a mass timber structure. Photo courtesy City of Northglenn

Sustainable Design and Construction

Northglenn, a Denver suburb, opens a net zero, all-electric city hall with a mass timber structure

Oct. 10, 2024

Water mitigation on mass timber wood

5 lessons in water mitigation for mass timber projects

Sept. 26, 2024

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