WILLIAMSTOWN, Ken. - The mammoth Ark Encounter project is being recognized as the world’s largest freestanding timber frame structure, with a total of 3.1 million board feet of pine timber used in its ...

Learn how to plan, route, and install hydronic radiant systems in timber-frame structures to deliver quiet, efficient, and visually unobtrusive heating solutions.

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

Different structures have different functions or purposes. The individual parts of any structure need to be selected, arranged and fixed together carefully to make sure the structure carries out its ...

For over a century, wood pole structures have been used to support overhead powerlines. Over time, as the utility industry expanded, the basic wood pole structure has evolved, but regardless of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Mayor Frank Jackson has signed off on tax incentives that will aid a developer who plans to build what is billed as the tallest timber-framed structure in the country across from the ...

The library is set in a courtyard. Its five floors are elliptical in plan and rise freely within a 64 x 55m domelike enclosure, 19m high. The floors curve sinuously at the peripheral edges. The ...

Initially envisioned as a boat house, this compact private residence was developed out of a two-week design-build course, taught by principal Peter Braithwaite, at the Dalhousie School of Architecture ...