World’s tallest timber residential building planned
The Danish architectural firm, Schmidt Hammer Lassen (SHL) has designed a 100-meter-tall, or more than 30-story tall housing block in Switzerland that will be the world's tallest cross-laminated timber...
View ArticleMercer Mass Timber plans $50 million plant investment
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. -- Mercer Mass Timber LLC., a subsidiary of the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Mercer International Inc., a global producer of market pulp and solid wood products with mills in...
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Milwaukee takes tallest timber high-rise title
MILWAUKEE--The results are in, and Milwaukee can now claim to be the home of the world's tallest timber building at 284 feet, which beats the current record holder in height by 4 feet.The Council on...
View ArticleCLT producer, Sterling Structural, attains certification for its TerraLam CLT
PHOENIX, Ill. -- Sterling Structural, a division of Sterling Site Access Solutions, LLC, announced its cross-laminated timber (CLT) product line, sold under the TerraLam trade name, has been certified...
View ArticleCalifornia codes now allow mass timber buildings up to 18 stories
New California building codes have been enacted that would allow for high-rise mass-timber buildings to be constructed in the state. The ruling came as new construction and applications for mass-timber...
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B.C. surpasses the entire U.S. in mass-timber buildings
More mass-timber wooden buildings have been built in B.C. than in almost the entire United States. A total of 307 of the environmentally friendly, laminated wooden buildings have been constructed in...
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Aragon launches Timber House, North America's largest residential CLT project
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.— Aragon Properties has launched Timber House, which it calls North America's largest residential CLT project in New Westminster, B.C. Kalesnikoff, a Canadian CLT company based in...
View ArticleMercer Mass Timber completes $81.1 million Structurlam acquisition
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. — Mercer Mass Timber, a low-carbon advanced manufacturer of timber building materials and a subsidiary of Mercer International Inc., has completed the acquisition of Structurlam...
View ArticleProduction resumes at shuttered Structurlam plant
Production at the shuttered Structurlam timber plant in Conway, Tenn. resumed Thursday, June 15, after Mercer Mass Timber of Canada took ownership of the facility.Mercer, a division of global timber...
View ArticleLargest industrial building erected entirely of mass timber
BALTIMORE — Blueprint Robotics, a Baltimore-based company that produces wood-frame construction products is planning to build a 450,000-square-foot production facility in Windsor, Connecticut, that is...
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