Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has collaborated with University of Michigan Taubman College to create the SPLAM [SPatial LAMinated timber], a robotically-fabricated timber pavilion for the 2021 ...

When Pete and DeeAnn Simpson set out to build their Indianola home, they had more on their minds than its comforts and aesthetics. Their focus was on its longevity, environmental impact and effect on ...

“Roundwood Timber Framing” is a superb natural-building resource. If I’d had Ben Law’s book Roundwood Timber Framing back when I was learning how to build in the ’60s, I would have been inspired to ...

In the cool morning air, dappled sunlight filters through the boughs of towering cedars and onto the yard where two dozen carpenters are working. Huge logs are suspended, a warm fleshy hue to them as ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. NORWAY — Rusty Partridge, owner-operator of Black Dog Timberworks at 560 ...

The United Steel Builders Association (USBA), a body of builders, have called for the lifting of the ban on the use of the steel-timber-concrete construction method. The call was made following a ...

Roundwood timber framing means working with materials sourced straight from the forest, using nature’s shapes to create the structure, employing techniques that can easily be learnt and passed on, and ...