Sep 25, 20265 min
Design a Timber Frame in Your Browser: A Complete Walkthrough
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Sep 25, 20265 min
From a Timber Frame Model to a Material List
See how one timber frame model connects piece counts, dimensions and material planning, with quantities from a real house example.
Sep 25, 20265 min
Why Use Dedicated Software for Timber Frame Design?
See how FrameVerk connects timber members, 2D and 3D views, roof framing, and project sharing in a browser, with no CAD installation.
Aug 19, 20263 min
Saskatoon’s New Library Pairs Mass Timber With a High-Performance Envelope
A new central library on the Canadian prairies shows why exposed wood, airtightness, daylight and efficient all-electric systems must be designed together.
Aug 19, 20264 min
Where Timber Buildings Leak Air: 18 Homes Put to the Blower-Door Test
Field tests in a cold climate locate the weak points that turn a well-insulated timber envelope into an energy-performance gap.
Aug 18, 20263 min
A Passive Timber Wall in Practice: U-Values, Airtightness and the Junction Problem
A 2026 self-build case documents one panel system’s thermal targets—and the details that decide whether factory performance reaches site.
Aug 18, 20263 min
Beech Fibre Inside Bricks: A New Bio-Based Insulation Route
Researchers are testing mats and loose granules made from beech fibre as two ways to insulate perforated masonry.
Aug 18, 20264 min
Can You Cut That I-Joist? A Beginner’s Guide to Service Openings
July 2026 tests show why the shape, size and location of service openings change the capacity and failure mode of wood I-joists.
Aug 18, 20263 min
Massachusetts Offers $40,000 Per Team for Mass Timber: A Beginner’s Guide
A public accelerator offers selected project teams up to $40,000 in technical support. Here is what early-stage mass-timber assistance can—and cannot—do.
Aug 18, 20263 min
Uruguay Turns a Timber-Housing Competition Into 20 Social Homes
A public programme is moving from award-winning ideas to a small built test, giving Uruguay a chance to measure cost, speed and durability before scaling timber housing.
Aug 11, 20263 min
Are Light Timber Homes Too Flimsy for Earthquakes? A Full-Scale Test Answers
Full-scale cyclic tests published in June 2026 show how a light wood-frame building resists and deforms under simulated earthquake loading.
Aug 11, 20263 min
Can Phase-Change Timber Cut Energy Demand? New CLT Tests Say Up to 11.8%
Researchers embedded a phase-change material inside timber and modelled how the modified CLT could steady temperatures and reduce annual demand.
Aug 11, 20265 min
CLT, Glulam or Hybrid? A Beginner’s Guide Through Five European Housing Projects
Five European housing projects show why mass timber is a kit of structural choices rather than one universal building system.
Aug 11, 20263 min
Kaj 16 Reaches Full Height: What Sweden’s 78-Metre Timber Hybrid Teaches the Jobsite
A waterfront office tower in Gothenburg has topped out, shifting attention from renderings to moisture, tolerances, sequencing and hybrid interfaces.
Aug 11, 20263 min
One Thousand Timber Modules in 24 Months: Inside Rostock’s New Federal Campus
A German public campus uses roughly one thousand prefabricated timber room modules to compress a huge programme into a two-year assembly challenge.
Aug 8, 20263 min
An 80-Year Cost Test Put Mass Timber $5 Million Ahead in Saanich
A municipal fire-station decision shows why whole-life cost can reverse the result of a first-price comparison.
Aug 8, 20265 min
BCIT’s 12-Storey Timber Residence Turns Student Housing Into a Zero-Carbon Test Case
Burnaby’s tallest mass-timber building adds 469 beds while combining prefabricated CLT floors, a fully electric design and zero-carbon certification.
Aug 8, 20266 min
Canada Backs Prairie Mass Timber With a $4.4 Million Forest-Sector Package
Ten federal investments connect automated timber manufacturing, Indigenous forestry, market development and research intended to support future building-code updates.
Aug 8, 20263 min
Cape Town’s 3D Timber Dome: What “Extreme Mass Timber” Actually Means
A free-form dome in Cape Town shows how engineered wood, computational geometry and precise fabrication can turn irregular curves into buildable parts.
Aug 8, 20264 min
Cheadle Eco Park Raises an All-Timber Industrial Frame at National Scale
A six-unit industrial development near Manchester is replacing the familiar steel portal frame with timber—and making its carbon boundaries worth examining.
Aug 8, 20265 min
Does Timber Frame Burn Like Kindling? The 2026 Fire Review Says Design Is the Point
A 2026 European review explains how linings, insulation, cavities, connections and workmanship shape light timber-frame fire safety.
Aug 8, 20263 min
Eight Buildings, One Material: The 2026 Wood in Architecture Awards Show How Broad Timber Has Become
WoodWorks’ 2026 winners range from an AI building and a radio station to schools, headquarters and workforce housing—evidence that timber is moving beyond a single architectural niche.
Aug 8, 20263 min
Mass Timber Is Not Just for Towers: Ann Arbor Is Building It Into Schools
A Michigan school programme challenges four common myths about mass timber, from building type and fire to energy performance and cost.
Aug 8, 20263 min
Mass Timber vs Concrete on Site: Construction Energy Was 30% Lower in a New Study
A 2026 analysis of completed projects isolates construction-stage energy—and shows why winter heating can dominate the result.