Modern timber construction is growing at a remarkable rate in the United States and the latest significant project to ...

Sweden’s Modvion AB has set its sights even higher for its next generation of wind-turbine towers as the industry’s ...

So instead of buying a pre-built tower, he made one — out of wood! Coming from someone who has no experience in woodworking (or computer building) we’re seriously impressed with what he’s made.

The tower was built in 1931 and is a state and national historic place. It closed at the end of 2017 because of wood decay ...

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has unveiled its design for a 186ft-tall timber tower for Boston ...

or a fully steel tower like with most wind turbines, Modvion uses segments of layered wood which it calls ‘the module‘. These are assembled out of 144 layers of 3 mm thick spruce, with ring ...

A construction project on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology is beyond cool, it's frozen solid. Faculty and students recently erected a colorful 12-foot tower out of snow and ice.

Municipalities with old castles began outfitting their facilities with wooden keeps in the Heisei Era (1989-2019). Tours of castles with timber-based tower replicas, along with efforts to re ...

The historic observation tower in Potawatomi State Park will reopen ... 2017 after an inspection found significant decay in the wooden structure, and approved funds in the most recent biennial ...

Using wood instead of energy-intensive steel to build towers emits ... Modvion last month received third party certification for its latest tower design to support a 6.4-megawatt turbine made by ...