Amid rising surface temperatures and an ongoing climate crisis, scientists and architects alike are working hard to think of ...

Gothic builders in England fitted out great halls with elaborately carved hammer-beam roofs ... in a versatile new form: mass timber, a sturdy, humane product engineered not from ever-scarcer ...

Introduction to the use of wood as a structural engineering material. Includes design of beams, columns, nailed and bolted connections, trusses, and panels. Overview of engineered timber systems ...

which was used to manufacture so-called mass-engineered timber—superthin layers glued into panels and beams that can be fashioned into columns, walls, roofs and more. The trouble is spruce has a ...