Practical Design Guidance for Tall Timber and Hybrid Buildings As building codes continue to enable taller mass timber construction across Canada, engineers and designers are seeking practical approaches to designing...

Harsh weather, limited operational windows and complex logistics: how timber prefabrication and teamwork made the new Polish Henryk Arctowski Antarctic Station possible. How far can timber prefabrication go? All the...

Have you ever felt the face-grain expression of softwood CLT lacks the refined look of an edge grain profile? Ever wanted sharper kerf edges or acoustic attenuation in a CLT...

CWC Handbook for Construction Moisture Management of Mass Timber Buildings Moisture management doesn’t begin when rain appears in the forecast. It begins during project planning and continues through construction, commissioning,...

As engineered timber becomes more widely used across Australasia, the industry’s focus is shifting from design possibilities to the harder realities of procurement, cost certainty and getting projects built. The...

On site at Cibao International Airport in the Dominican Republic, where the new terminal’s timber roof is taking shape. The straight and curved glulam beams follow the roof’s freeform geometry....

Townhouses are fast closing the gap with standalone houses in New Zealand’s new-build market. According to Stats NZ, 17,230 townhouses, flats and units were consented in the year to May...

Finnish firm Elementic has unveiled MO6, a wall-surfacing material produced from forestry industry offcuts that is almost pure carbon. Called MO6, the product takes the form of thick, lightweight tiles...

There is considerable angst in the design industry around AI renders. The RM Designs team will not change its process and are sticking to the handmade white card model which...

Timberlab has launched AcousDeck CLT™, which integrates acoustic absorption into structural CLT panels, alongside AcousDeck Wall™, a complementary non-structural acoustic wall system. Together, they help project teams create high-performance mass...

Pomerleau is delivering preconstruction, value engineering, design-assist, and construction services for the University of Toronto Academic Wood Tower, a 14-storey, 77-metre hybrid steel-and-timber building set to become Canada’s tallest mass...

Centrumeiland, a reclaimed residential island east of Amsterdam and part of the IJburg expansion, includes social housing built with timber structures and reclaimed-wood façades. Many plots were reserved for private...

Melton City Council’s new Aquatic and Leisure Centre in Fraser Rise (interim name) has reached a major construction milestone, with ten 32-metre glulam timber rafters—manufactured in Austria and each weighing...

Completed in 2022, the Clearwater Quays Apartment in Christchurch, a five-level, luxury, residential apartment, is not just carbon neutral, it’s carbon negative, sequestering over a million kilograms of CO₂ by...

The Pringle at Assembly Studios near Atlanta is an 82-foot clear-span, 4,000-square-foot bending-active timber gridshell. Its two-layer roof was assembled flat from straight 3-by-3-inch timber laths, lifted in a single...

New study from Perkins&Will offers mass timber solution to Canada’s housing crisis — researchers propose a prefabricated, modular mass-timber system for accelerating housing delivery while supporting the nation’s economy and...

The Waikato Regional Theatre is an arts-led regeneration project intended to create a civic and cultural hub on Hamilton’s riverfront. Designed as a community and visitor destination, it will combine...

An airship hangar as a blueprint for the timber engineering of tomorrow: it is the gates that make the scale of this structure immediately comprehensible.  But the real highlight of...

Bürogebäude Wood in Grenoble — The six-storey timber structure uses columns and beams spaced 4–6 m apart, supported on shallow concrete footings with tie-rods for seismic resistance; the eastern section...

This looks like an icon in the making – can’t wait to see the finished photos inside this magnificent space! The EVE Music Hall is set to become a new...

Who doesn’t like civic buildings especially when they also serve as Grand Prix venues. Woods Bagot has been appointed to lead the architectural vision for the redevelopment of the Albert...

The Court Theatre project is a purpose-built performing arts venue in Christchurch, designed to be the cultural heart of the city. The building integrates mass timber elements to enhance sustainability,...

Hands-on Wood is Good Day gives students a glimpse into the people, technology and opportunities behind forestry. Te Hapara School students got up close to the world of forestry this...

When you look beyond our borders for where mass timber is gaining traction it’s often in education buildings. Maybe it’s because young people getting educated are a natural fit for...

The opening of Poutini Waiora in Māwhera Greymouth celebrated a new facility designed to provide more comprehensive support for whānau and the wider West Coast community. The occasion also honoured...

The last timber panel is now in place at Atlassian Central, the final piece in a global milestone for the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower.  Also check out the great...

And this is how you install an APEX connector. Following up on last month’s 20-second video, let’s look at the actual installation sequence of the APEX system. When an installation...

The Mid-Rise Wood Construction (MRWC) programme has concluded, but its practical resources are now available through Timber Unlimited. Over nearly eight years, MRWC brought together industry partners to share experience,...

Red Stag has completed or is in the process of completing, seven large timber buildings as part of Red Stag’s manufacturing site. Key building metrics, design, and images have been...

The Hyne Group announced this week that it has commenced a strategic review of its XLAM Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) manufacturing business. Whilst XLAM has been the southern hemisphere’s pioneer...

What if the most complex component of an apartment arrived at the construction site fully finished? A bathroom brings together many different trades within a confined space, requiring a great...

Timberburg, a roughly 43,000-square-foot, 23-unit luxury residential condo project is preparing to open at 179 N. 10th Street in Williamsburg. The city’s largest mass-timber project to-date hopes to achieve the...

Tāwhaki Nui-a-Hema / Motueka High School Maths and Horticulture Block is a two-storey mass timber teaching facility for the Ministry of Education, providing six teaching spaces at Motueka High School....

Recently Tumu celebrated the ‘topping out’ of Heretaunga House — this project is part of the site visit at WoodWorks 2026 Annual Conference in October — don’t miss out register...

A major milestone has been reached as the final six months of the FAS project gets underway. The Future Accommodation Strategy (FAS) project is about ensuring Parliament has effective space to accommodate...

Here’s a fantastic example of engineered wood in an engineered system of modular construction: 450m2 high-performance architectural homes cantilevering over the lake edge. Two weeks from slab to roof on...

For our WoodWorks Conference in Hastings in October, one of the site visits is to the new building and adaptive reuse project for Napier City Council – their new library....

A two-storey community facility in Langford, BC is now under construction, bringing together licensed childcare and a purpose-built arts and culture centre. The Langford Childcare and Art Studio is the...

Architecture studios Waugh Thistleton Architects and Mithun have designed a 12-storey mass-timber office block in Bellevue, Washington. Designed for developer and contractor Skanska, the Bevel tower will become the tallest timber office building in the US,...

A reminder that our popular WoodWorks 2026 National Conference is now only 3 weeks away. This year, it’s taking place in sunny Hastings, Hawke’s Bay… so if you don’t want...

Here is an interesting application for NLT — being nail-laminated timber; something specified and used more often in Canada and North America than in New Zealand.  Can anyone tell us...

An 80 metre long timber structure spans the entrance to the new underground station on St. Kilda Road in Melbourne, Australia. The impressive torus-shaped roof consists of diagonally arranged and...

The award-winning, 10-storey mass timber building at George Brown Polytechnic’s Waterfront Campus is a landmark project in sustainable institutional construction. Designed to support learning, collaboration, and student life, the building...

The timelapse we’ve been waiting for… On Friday we hit a big milestone at Heretaunga House with the ‘topping out’ of the mass timber structure. Some quick facts for context:...

When it comes to developing export markets at scale for wood products, the Canadians are hard to beat.  Not just because forestry is to Canada as dairy is to New...

Next time you stop by The Wayland Mill for a Ginger Turmeric Chai, notice the standing tables near the front door and outside. They’re made from the mass timber and concrete...

A formerly closed sports site in Les Mureaux has been transformed into an open public campus, reconnecting the surrounding neighbourhoods. Education, sports and community use now come together within a...

Another milestone reached — every day the module moves one step closer to becoming a fully completed hotel room, and every day we refine and optimise the system. One of...

In just 59 working days, The LTM Heretaunga House Team has successfully completed the mass timber structure. A demonstration to what can be achieved through a model first approach and...

On Friday 31 July 2026, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon opened the Southern Hemisphere’s first off-site production line to use Cross Laminated Timber, CLT, as the structure. The initiative is a...