The James Beard Public Market has released new architectural renderings of its exterior, including dramatic wood details on ...

The Structural Wood Design Calculator is for the iPhone or iPod Touch. It is a tool for engineers, architects, and builders, as well as students to design wood beams for strength in bending, shear, ...

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

Propel your career forward with an accredited graduate certificate. Thanks to mass timber and tall wood building, timber design is at the forefront of structural engineering and architecture—and ...

The Beam on Farmer, Arizona’s first mass timber, multi-story office building, topped out on Feb. 10, 2022. The five-story, 184,000-sf structure, located in downtown Tempe, is the first in the state to ...

The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) and USDA Forest Service have revealed the five winning proposals for the 2023 Mass Timber Competition: Building to Net-Zero Carbon. The announcement, made at the ...

Large wood timbers are strong, impressive and widely used in architecture. They are popular because they are easy to work into shapes that can be used both structurally and aesthetically. Wood beams ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.