News in engineered wood products mass timber

HGA has unveiled for the first time a new mass timber project that was completed earlier this year at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, according to a feature by Archinect.

British Columbia’s Minster of Housing announced that proposed changes to the BC building code will expand the use of mass timber to build taller buildings.

ENRTexas&Louisiana has featured a new, 40,000-square-foot mass timber facility at San Antonio’s Trinity University.

Stora Enso is celebrating the opening of a wooden architectural landmark building in the courtyard of Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, the company announced.

Archinect recently profiled PERI 3D Construction, a German company collaborating with COBOD on the “first 3D-printed social housing apartment building in Germany and Europe.”

Studio Pacific Architecture’s new flagship hangar being built for Air New Zealand will be the largest single-span timber arch aircraft hangar in the southern hemisphere, according to ArchitectureNow.

Senator King is asking the General Services Administration to integrate mass timber into the procurement process for the construction and renovation of federal buildings, Maine Public Radio reported (11-19-23).

The Institution of Structural Engineers awarded the 2023 Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence to StructureCraft for its work on the Nancy Pauw Bridge in Alberta, Construction Canada reported.

The University of California, Berkeley is breaking ground on the first mass timber building constructed on its campus, according to Berkeley News.