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,...

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...

Intertenancy walls are critical building elements that separate adjacent occupancies such as apartments, hotel rooms, and office units. These walls must meet strict performance requirements for fire resistance, acoustic insulation,...

US studio CookFox Architects has designed a museum dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen, which is located in New Jersey. Called the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music (BSACAM), the museum celebrates the...

Last April marked the opening of Chief Leonard George, a 9-storey affordable mass timber housing project in East Vancouver that encompasses 81 social housing units along with childcare, and sets...

Hawke’s Bay Airport’s new fire station has won the Public Architecture category at the 2026 Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay Regional Architecture Awards. That is notable for a 550-square-metre building whose...

The world’s tallest hybrid timber building, Atlassian Central, has officially topped out at 39 storeys. Designed by SHoP Architects and BVN Architecture for co-owners Atlassian and Dexus and delivered by...

Last February, B.C. residents got a scare when a 4.7-magnitude earthquake hit near the beach community of Sechelt, rattling the province’s southwestern coast. Aside from some cracked drywall and burst pipes,...

One for the engineers and connections detailers: Walls meet floors, post bases anchor to concrete, structures align, with just one connector. Between timber, steel and concrete, every connection is fitted...

Canada’s insurance sector is calling for more time and data before it can fully evaluate mass timber as a building material, even as its use spreads rapidly across the country,...

Recently, Tyson Infanti had the chance to return to the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Moreton Bay campus – a project he hadn’t seen in person since shortly after construction....

Who said firefighters didn’t like wood? In Bernstein, Austria, the new firestation shows how wood can serve essential public infrastructure and combine performance, durability and quality of space. More info:...

This catalogue marks a significant step forward in the world of hybrid and timber structures, prefabrication, and design for disassembly. It introduces a range of innovative, standardized solutions that seamlessly...

Impressive pictures follow of the bending-active Assembly Atlanta timber gridshell being lifted into place! Likened to a timber trampoline (and a Pringle), the two gridshell layers (4×4 dimensional lumber) were...

Here’s an exciting development in mass timber building systems – simple, yet effective!...

The Vancouver Island University Student Housing project in Nanaimo has recently reached a major milestone with the topping off of the mass timber structure.⁠ The 10-storey student housing project adds...

Mass timber rigging fastener reuse should not be justified by sanitized lab tests or selective foreign protocols that overlook jobsite realities and local standards. Safety depends on identifying the true...

Buildcorp is refurbishing and extending 450 Queen Street in Brisbane with a timber-first design by FK Australia, creating a lightweight, sustainable crown for the CBD tower using Australian-sourced timber and...

NSW just put out the call to the world’s modular housing manufacturers. 🏭 Expressions of Interest are now open for businesses to build or expand modular/prefab manufacturing facilities in NSW...

Want to see what the fantastic new community library in Tauranga looks like now it is in the final stages of fit-out?  The mass timber is a fabulous feature. Grab...