This article is part of the Bloomberg Green series Timber Town, which looks at the global rise of timber as a low-carbon building material. The number of people living in urban areas around the world ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

Below are two of the 40 projects. To see the fill list of projects, visit Top 40 office building projects for 2025. Cleveland Foundation Headquarters, Cleveland, Ohio. The Cleveland Foundation ...

Buildings made of mass timber – layers of wood bonded together – are gaining popularity as greener and faster alternatives to concrete and steel structures. With new building codes recently updated to ...

Mass timber, an engineered wood product known for its strength and versatility, has emerged as a formidable alternative to traditional construction materials like concrete and steel. As concerns about ...

Looking back at the past 10 years in mass timber design—since our firm’s first mass timber building, the John W. Olver Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst—it is evident that as ...

MILWAUKEE - A new building proposal could change Milwaukee's skyline and set a world record. The city announced plans Tuesday for multiple mixed-use buildings that would replace the Marcus Performing ...

Can you really build a skyscraper out of wood? Though we typically think of steel, concrete, and glass as the building blocks of a modern city, TALL TIMBER: The Future of Cities in Wood, a new exhibit ...

MILWAUKEE — Mass-timber buildings continue to reach higher and higher in Milwaukee -- the home of the current tallest such builder; the location of construction on what will become the new ...

As the material continues to grow in popularity, we take a look at mass-timber apartments, academic buildings and even an Apple Store made with cross-laminated timber and glulam, for our 2025 Review.

As developers look for innovative ways to build projects that meet sustainability goals while remaining affordable, President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs could stifle progress. For years, the ...

With 767 mass timber projects under construction across the U.S., there is more demand than ever for the lumber product that is seen as a more sustainable alternative to traditional building ...