But the nineteen upper floors are constructed from gigantic mass timber beams, columns and boards. David Corr: This is relatively new, especially in the United States.

Q: 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.

In 2019, when Columbia Property Trust was mulling how to increase the height of its existing 90-ft, seven-story, concrete-framed office building at 80 M St. SE in Washington, D.C., it chose a mass ...

But the floors above feature manufactured wood columns and beams braced by steel and as well as a flooring system that includes laminated 2-by-8-foot wood beams sandwiched with a layer of concrete ...

The test specimen consisted of an exposed glue-laminated-timber (GLT) beam-to-column assembly—with embedded steel connectors—and an exposed cross-laminated-timber (CLT) floor with a top layer ...

Wooden beams are decorative features in Hudson’s homes, as well as in the outdoor kitchens he creates. “I average roughly 20 new houses per year and would say 75 percent of them have some type ...

Nail laminated timber is not a new concept. Here in Vancouver, British Columbia, where lumber has always been in abundance, many of the early 1900s Type III ordinary constructed buildings in our ...

The original wood beams were 3 inches by 8 inches, so we found an LVL that was comparable in size. They proved to be solid and straight enough to be the perfect structure we needed for the floor. Plus ...

But the nineteen upper floors are constructed from gigantic mass timber beams, columns and boards. David Corr: This is relatively new, especially in the United States.