At the University of Toronto, just across the street from the football stadium, workers are putting up a 14-story building with space for classrooms and faculty offices. What’s unusual is how they’re ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

A Spokane Valley factory could help transform the U.S. building industry, bringing tall, wooden structures into the mainstream. Building with wood – a renewable resource – is better for the ...

From engineered wood to high-performance glass, today’s best building materials are chosen for durability, efficiency, and ...

More multistory buildings are being made with mass timber, or wood that is glued and pressed in special ways to make it structurally capable of replacing building materials like concrete and steel, ...

‘In France, we build more with concrete and stone than wood,’ he said. ‘When I was exposed to Japanese building culture, I realised how you could build fantastic structures with wood. This material ...

The modern industrial era was literally built on steel and concrete, readily available materials that gave buildings the strength to stretch hundreds of stories into the sky. Unlike wood, steel and ...

With concrete a major source of climate-changing emissions, cities around the world are looking at high-rise wooden buildings instead HONG KONG, Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For more than a ...

In marking its 75 year anniversary Wednesday, Odessa College celebrated its history, and its future breaking ground on a new state-of-the-art health sciences building. Construction on the $40 million, ...