Constructing shelter from logs — Abe Lincoln-style — is old-school. Alongside stone, mud brick and animal skin, wood has been humanity’s go-to building ... said the trees used for the ...

But old buildings that fail to keep ... Shunning the carbon-intensive materials typically used in construction, Ecoworks uses renewables such as wood for the paneling and cellulose for insulation.

Ancient humans were building large wooden structures ... that ancient humans made use of wood. For instance, researchers have discovered 300,000-year-old wooden spears at a site in Germany ...

nly a few, niche builders in the area bother to put recycled wood in their buildings ... nail pusher," Pearson said as a worker used a tool to drive an old nail through a stud and into a barrel.

Back in the 1970s and 80s, millions of wooden buildings (both new and old) were treated with preservatives ... lindane and pentachlorophenol (PCP), were used to protect against fungus and wood ...

“They brought back stained glass windows that were in storage and dishes that are now in the breakfast room that were used when it was a convent.” Reconnecting with the past is an invaluable ...

Tearing down a building is a dirty job ... designed the city’s newest fire station, they used 89 steel beams salvaged from an old community hospital. Emily Freeman, policy advisor for a circular ...

In a series of Himalayan towns known for severe earthquakes, locals still honour a millennia-old building ... the residents had used an ancient, traditional Himalayan building technique known ...

While his career was in optometry, Wood has spent decades looking at Jacksonville’s architecture — researching, writing and thinking about what used ... some of the old buildings and new ...

A wood building material can be used in high-rise structures ... But it’s not just any old lumber. The top 19 floors of the 25-story building are made with cross-laminated timber or CLT ...