Typically, when you want to build a high rise, you need iron, steel, cement, concrete; materials that are super strong and durable but also come with a high carbon footprint. Now, some builders are ...

Bier Stube, a longtime campus bar that closed in September 2024, will soon give way to Columbus’ first mass-timber high-rise building. Harbor Bay Ventures, an Illinois-based timber development company ...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...

St. Louis' turn-of-the-century brick buildings are full of massive beams from old-growth forests. Kyle Howerton, a principal with St. Louis-based developer AHM Group, is working on a new high rise ...

A new study finds that adopting cross-laminated timber as a primary construction material could have significant environmental benefits, from carbon storage to global reforestation and increased ...

Our cities have become monuments of concrete and steel. Concrete and steel are durable, but they’re also immense sources of greenhouse gases and require large amounts of energy to prduce. The building ...

Brent Sohngen receives funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Department of Higher Education, IGS Energy, and The Nature ...

Mass timber is starting to present itself more frequently as an option for more sustainable and aesthetically pleasing construction. Amid rising surface temperatures and an ongoing climate crisis, ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A new tower will soon grace Milwaukee's skyline. Monday, June 16, city officials and the CEO of Madison-based developer Neutral broke ground on The Edison. The 31-story apartment ...

The operating life and life span of buildings are often far apart. If a property is no longer fit for purpose, it is usually demolished even though it would still be perfectly usable. Even in the ...

The City of Milwaukee has selected a team of C.D. Smith Construction and Thornton Tomasetti to develop and build both The Edison, a 32-story residential tower (pictured), and The Marcus Center, a ...