New Zealand’s tallest mass timber icon – The Auckland City Mission HomeGround building has received another prestigious award.  NZIA announced the winners of their named awards – Aotearoa’s highest tier of architectural achievement.⁠ The...

Timber may be one of the oldest and most common building materials, but innovations like these are transforming its role in the future of construction. Here are four Australian projects...

CLT market projected to top $2 billion by 2027 – According to the current analysis from Reports and Data, the global cross laminated timber market was valued at $786.71 Million...

Materials Innovations: What is Structural Engineered Bamboo (SEB)? – Pretentious as it may sound, we can say with certainty that bamboo is one of the most promising materials for the...

There’s no getting away from it: the construction of new buildings, with the traditional materials of steel, iron and cement, accounts for around 39% of all global carbon emissions. Reducing...

How this New Zealand local council office building became a “timber hero” – One of New Zealand’s leading architects Warren and Mahoney has designed the country’s largest mass timber building...

Techlam supplying the glulam components and systems for New Zealand’s largest mass timber office building – Tauranga City Council’s new six-star Green Star office building, 90 Devonport Road to feature...

Timber Development UK has released an article co-authored by Waugh Thistleton associate director David Lomax and Whitby Wood director Kelly Harrison that looks at emerging solutions for mass timber construction,...

Purpose of the report The purpose of the annual report is to provide an overview of the current and emerging trends in the building and construction sector; and fulfills section...

More than six years and $14 million of works are complete at the Queensland Fire and Emergency Headquarters in the heritage city of Maryborough, but this is a building like...

The New Zealand Timber Design Society (TDS) is happy to offer two professional development grants for consulting engineers actively involved with timber design.Successful recipient(s) will receive financial assistance to cover...

Kirk has created an “experimental” office tower in Brisbane that thoughtfully navigates a complex brief, a challenging site and a tight timeframe by utilizing locally grown and manufactured CLT. In...

With the increased demand for taller wood buildings as a low-carbon alternative, there is a greater need to better understand the building performance of wood structures. Computer modelling allows demonstration...

Lloyd Alter, Treehugger Editor: I try to distill many of the thoughts discussed on Treehugger into coherent lectures when teaching Sustainable Design at Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Interior Design...

From Bates Smart: Great news out of Chicago, as 55 Southbank Boulevard has been named overall winner of the Renovation category at the 2022 CTBUH Awards. This comes after director Julian...

Looking for an opportunity to get away from the construction site, step up your career, while being part of the future of construction? Offsite Design Ltd are experts in prefabrication...

Ruamoko Solutions is proud to be involved with Portus Property and Ignite on the innovative structural design of this mass timber building. The development of this iconic site into a...

This is a story about Irving Smith Architects’ new studio in Nelson. It’s as much about its outer contextual boundaries as it is about its lack of interior ones, and...

Created for the developer/investor audience, these case studies discuss qualitative influences and provide quantitative data to examine investment success, challenges and lessons learned. WoodWorks US – click here for more. Steel...

Designing with low carbon in mind doesn’t take away from a project, it enhances it giving it an innovative edge that makes it unique. Using Techlam Glulam takes away the...

RM Designs have released the first images of ‘Te Ara Pounamu’. The building will be at the gateway to Mawhera and the flagship for the Pounamu Pathway on the West Coast...

RNZ: Wood is making a comeback as the construction industry looks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from high carbon materials like concrete and steel. The government’s Building for Climate Change...

Building with renewable engineered wood rather than concrete offers a significant win for the environment and the financials, a new case study has revealed. The study used Clearwater Quays luxury...

This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about eight of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks event running in Rotorua, New Zealand on...

Architecture studio Mitsubishi Jisho Design has completed an 11-storey hybrid timber hotel in Sapporo, Japan, that was designed to use as much local timber and as little concrete as possible....

Launceston’s $30 million, 28-metre-high timber building is set to become the most sustainable and carbon-positive office in Tasmania. Encompassing 500m2 of Cusp CLT, it also aims to be the first...

This opportunity comes with a free conference registration – up to about eight of them in fact for – for this year’s WoodWorks event running in Rotorua, New Zealand on 8-9...

WoodWorks NZ followers now have access to premium content on the Wood-Works USA websites. To take advantage of the free access to events and content use the code: FreeNZ Click on...

Join the Timber Design Society for the ninth webinar of the Timber Design series with David Carradine. The detailing and performance of SIP systems can be significantly different to other...

(Prince George, BC, Canada) — Combining steel and wood in building design can make our structures more sustainable, but how do these hybrid buildings handle fire, earthquakes and other cascading...