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.

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. Is it possible for ...

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.

Part 4 — More Types of Beams You Are Likely to Encounter Welcome back to the "Behold the Beam" series of articles. In part three (Firehouse®, September 2010) of the series, we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“They would be able to land the columns, the beams and get the DLT [dowel-laminated timber] floor on and get up to the next floor.” Structure Craft’s erection crew used an average of six people.