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Clark Nexsen interior designers Anna Claire Beethoven and Brittney Just, CID, IIDA, LEED Green Associate, share why it is imperative to specify healthy building materials in K-12 schools.
This month, the Portland International Airport (PDX) main terminal expansion opened to passengers. Designed by ZGF for the Port of Portland, the 1 million-sf project doubles the capacity of PDX and enables the airport to welcome 35 million passengers per year by 2045.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will provide 38 grant recipients with nearly $160 million to support efforts to report and reduce climate pollution from the manufacturing of construction materials and products.
In Corvallis, Oreg., the Jen-Hsun Huang and Lori Mills Huang Collaborative Innovation Complex at Oregon State University aims to achieve a distinction among the world’s experimental research labs: It will be the first all-mass-timber lab meeting rigorous vibration criteria (2000 micro-inches per second, or MIPS).
River Beech Tower is said to be a part of a masterplan along the Chicago River.
Weight for weight, CLT is stronger than concrete and can be machined to incredibly high tolerances.
The new building code prevents any structure with more than three stories from being built from a CLT frame.
Colorburst panels are available in four stock options—Robin Egg Blue, Viridian Green, Haute Pink, and Cascade White—as well as custom colors.
Products will now have to be labeled as compliant to the new rules.
The campaign asserts that not enough is known about CLT in construction
To lessen the carbon footprint, Terrace House in Vancouver will be made of wood sourced from British Columbia.
![The history of building with wood [infographic]](/sites/default/files/styles/list_big/public/Richmond_Olympic_Oval_intern_View.jpg?itok=CT3sQmdz "The history of building with wood [infographic]")
The first timber home was built 10,000 years ago. Now 40-story wood skyscrapers are being constructed.
When you’re building the largest timber-frame structure in the world, you don’t want an open flame anywhere near the construction site.
The development acts as a transition area between a traditional urban landscape and parklands.
