Not so long ago, it was exceptionally rare to see timber buildings more than six stories tall. But new engineered wood technologies like cross-laminated timber (CLT), glued laminated wood (gluluam), ...
Off-site building components, whether mass timber, storage containers or the various types of modular units, can be beneficial to getting projects done, but using them properly means understanding ...
The concept of modular construction may seem foreign to some, but it is gaining traction as a safe and efficient means of building. In fact, COVID accelerated the pace of prefabrication and modular ...
Prefabrication and Modular at Scale: Driving Speed, Savings and Innovation Ernesto Fonseca joined Hacienda as CEO in April 2017, bringing his passion for community development and a belief in the ...
The Port of Portland has approved a long-term ground lease with ZAUGG Timber Solutions (ZTS) to build and operate a new mass timber modular factory at the Port’s Mass Timber and Housing Innovation ...
Prefabricated residential design and construction company Plant Prefab has unveiled three new LivingHome designs. The new designs, which range from a farmhouse-style structure to a modernist townhouse ...
At first glance, the new two-storey house on a corner of the Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation reserve in Fort St. James in ...
Outside Basel, Switzerland, Herzog & de Meuron has completed HORTUS, a project the firm has dubbed a “radically sustainable office building.” It was designed for tech companies and constructed using ...
Although initially conceived as a concrete structure, switching to timber as the primary building material proved to have a host of benefits. When San Mateo County set out to build a new office ...
Wrapped in gray paneling with ample windows, the exterior of the new four-story building at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Glen Iris Drive looks decidedly more modern than its hulking, brick ...
Despite all the news of re-openings, lifted restrictions, al fresco options dining, and a return to something more closely resembling “normal,” COVID-19 is still very much with us. And despite the ...