GRAND RAPIDS — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten on Friday announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Trent William Witteveen, 39, of Montague, ...

When the coronavirus crisis slammed the U.S. economy, owners of vast forests of timberland saw business take a big hit as most new construction ground to a halt along with demand for wood products.

Founders Hall at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, the first mass timber building at Seattle campus of Univ. of Washington, was recently completed. The 84,800-sf building creates ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Swinerton is proud to announce that it has officially launched Swinerton Mass Timber, a new business unit dedicated to building projects using mass ...

In a small rural town, a quiet plywood factory houses a groundbreaking innovation in construction. Here in the timber town of Lyons, population 1,204, 96-year-old veneer manufacturer Freres Lumber ...

James Ongul, Managing Director of James Timberland, a workshop and timber yard based at Magumu Ward in Nyandarua County. [Courtesy] In the last few years, Kenya’s timber business has been beset with ...

The mass-timber revolution is swiftly making its mark on the American landscape. As of March, an estimated 1,384 mass-timber buildings have been constructed or are in design in all 50 states, and in ...

Fourth in a series on tackling poverty while protecting the environment. Read the intro. The settlement of Cristóbal Colón, like most tiny towns scraped into the backcountry, was rough. There were no ...

Last mill standing. On its face, the resurrection of the Rough & Ready Lumber Company in Cave Junction looks like a single turn of luck in a small town — a win for the last remaining mill. But what’s ...

A growing number of North American architects and developers are supporting mass timber construction. Tall timber can sequester carbon, it's more resistant to fire than concrete, and it's often ...