A move towards a built environment that centers sustainability and embodied carbon is driving innovation within mass and hybrid timber construction. In this piece, Buro Happold considers the power and ...

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 ...

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Oct 31, 2024 at 6:00 am November 1, 2024 at 8:45 am Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is ...

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 ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Construction workers secure an engineered wood column onto the deck of the 12th floor of the ...

The Swedish construction giant Skanska broke ground on Cincinnati’s first cross laminated timber project. The planned 35,000-square-foot building will become the home of Cincinnati Public Radio when ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A new take on an old building material is gaining momentum ...

Engineer Will Arnold has come up with a clever way of demonstrating the scale of upfront carbon emissions, a problem many have been wrestling with. Whenever we talk about fixing old buildings instead ...

Timber is a natural, renewable material, easy to fabricate, and with low-carbon emissions. As a construction material, however, when put under enough directional force along its grain, sawn timber is ...

Microsoft is building its first of two planned data centers made with cross-laminated timber in a bid to "slash the use of steel and concrete, which are among the most significant sources of carbon ...