How Milwaukee is Becoming a Hub for Wood High-Rises
We sat down with managing partner Nate Helbach of The Neutral Project to learn more about the firm’s latest mixed-use, tall wood multifamily project—The Edison—expected to reach 32 stories when completed in 2025.
Unique Timber-Built Porch Gives Minnesotan Family Year-Round Outdoor Living
Duluth-based architect David Salmela—known for crafting residences that place a premium on outdoor living—has designed a two-story wooden house overlooking Lake Minnetonka that boasts a second-story sun-filled outdoor living escape.
WoodWorks Innovation Network Spotlight
The Cooper: Innovative Light-Frame Wood Project Reinvigorates Infill Site
Award-winning architecture firm DIGSAU turned to a novel use of light-frame wood construction and exposed wood cladding to bring a new era to the historic cast-iron façade of a former turn-of-the-century furniture retailer in Wilmington, Delaware, cleverly converting it into a 92-unit multifamily residential project.
The Journal of Light Construction’s latest edition showcases how a short-handed crew built full-height walls on the flat and lifted them into place in this practical how-to article.
The global firm is turning to mass timber construction, on-site solar power generation, and other innovative sustainable technologies to design the net zero energy campus located on New York’s Governor’s Island, built in partnership with Stony Brook University.
This family home goes from dark and dreary to light and luminous when San Francisco–based Lundberg Design swaps out stucco for redwood as part of an impressive home renovation project.
Learn how you can increase density and maximize value when you apply some innovative thinking to light-frame wood construction and design. Explore how to get the most out of building codes and boost building heights using podium construction.
With the rapid growth of mass timber construction has come a variety of possible solutions for shaft wall framing. Understand your material and detailing options when it comes to wood-constructed shaft wall solutions within mass timber buildings, as well as for other building types.
In Conversation: Renee Funston, Development Manager, Sacramento’s Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA)
Think Wood sat down with Funston to learn more about the evolving role of planning authorities like CADA and how mass timber can play an important part in more affordable, biophilic, eco-friendly housing design for urban centers.
