Working with Oregon State University (OSU), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been busy testing its design for a timber tower. The time-lapse video below shows a section of the wood tower being ...

As the topic of climate change continues to grow in prominence, it’s growing more difficult to ignore the outsized carbon impact of buildings, which account for nearly 40 percent of global carbon ...

Maestro, a new construction-technology startup born out of the design and innovation office CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, is unveiling the prototype for “A.I. Timber,” a new method for sustainable ...

One of the Oregon Zoo's male elephants surveys his territory. Next door, the Oregon Zoo is constructing a $57 million exhibit for its elephant herd that includes Oregon's first use of cross-laminated ...

As sustainability measures become increasingly important in new construction, architects around the world are turning toward mass timber — even for large-scale projects. A workshop at the ...

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Cities are shaped by fire. From Chicago to San Francisco, enormous swathes of urban fabric were wiped away by accident in the 19th century. These horrific disasters did more than just clear the way ...

Tommy Linstroth is Founder and CEO at Green Badger, a leading SaaS provider simplifying sustainability and ESG in the built industry. Leaps in technology are making it easier to build structures with ...