WILLIAMSTOWN, Ken. - The mammoth Ark Encounter project is being recognized as the world’s largest freestanding timber frame structure, with a total of 3.1 million board feet of pine timber used in its ...

Timber-frame construction puts gravity and lateral loads into fewer, larger members. It relies on exposed beams and open spans as defining architectural features. That differs from conventional wood ...

The highlights at Teufelberger’s booth (S16, Hall 7.2) for this year’s JEC are two large metal-composite hybrid space frame structures of 3 metres in length. The T-IGEL® connector forms the basis for ...

In the last two articles we looked at concrete and steel, two of the basic building blocks of commercial construction. This month we will discuss wood and how it is used in commercial construction. As ...

What is a Structural Frame? This phrase derives from two words, namely structure, and frame. Structure means the composition of different elements in a system. The frame could either mean the physical ...