It is the connections between columns and girders ... in unknown configurations with unknown hazards. Each floor of a heavy timber building should be considered a separate operation with ...

Heavy timber buildings, which include mill buildings ... wooden roof planks and interior support beams, particularly at connection points. These deteriorating conditions might not be noticeable ...

Recent advances in research have highlighted the critical role of timber connection design in ensuring the fire safety of mass timber structures. Timber, as a sustainable and versatile ...

Upper Macungie Township will soon be home to a188,000-square-foot Community Lifestyle Center at Grange Park, a ...

In this context, heavy timber is either sawn lumber or structural glue-laminated timber and is associated with Type IV construction. Laminated timber is the result of joining boards to form a ...

Designers created U-shaped buckets for connections where a timber beam connects to a steel column. That connection rests in the bucket like a socket. Photo courtesy Davis Construction The team ...

Heavy timber hasn’t been used in large-scale building construction in the District in a century, but construction is now underway on an addition to an existing… ...

The project would replace a 1-acre vacant parking lot at 359 East Paces Ferry Road. While heavy timber construction goes back centuries, it’s a method more common in Europe than the U.S. But it ...