Bill 203 would see the province green-light six-storey wood-frame construction. If approved, Alberta would join British Columbia, Quebec and (in 2015) Ontario in allowing wood to be used above ...

Though wood has been used in post-and-beam construction for thousands of years throughout the world, balloon framing (which eventually gave rise to modern platform framing) has been used only ...

The province has released a new wood-frame construction guide it claims will help residential builders shape better buildings. On Tuesday, the provincial government released its Building Enclosure ...

Wood construction of big buildings is catching on just about everywhere for good reasons: wood is renewable. In construction it is light, fast and less expensive than other materials. It's also ...

[ Timber frame construction sites should not be any more prone to serious fires than projects using ‘conventional’ materials, say Peter Jackman and Chris Houchen. Following investigations into the ...

1 Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States 2 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, ...