Working with Oregon State University (OSU), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has been busy testing its design for a timber tower. The time-lapse video below shows a section of the wood tower being ...

DARRINGTON — A small town in the Cascade foothills will soon be the site of a 100-acre campus for developing cutting-edge timber technology. Darrington received a $2 million state grant for the ...

As the topic of climate change continues to grow in prominence, it’s growing more difficult to ignore the outsized carbon impact of buildings, which account for nearly 40 percent of global carbon ...

John Redfield watches with pride as his son moves a laser-guided precision saw the size of a semi-truck wheel into place over a massive panel of wood. Redfield's fingers are scarred from a lifetime of ...

One of the Oregon Zoo's male elephants surveys his territory. Next door, the Oregon Zoo is constructing a $57 million exhibit for its elephant herd that includes Oregon's first use of cross-laminated ...

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Cities are shaped by fire. From Chicago to San Francisco, enormous swathes of urban fabric were wiped away by accident in the 19th century. These horrific disasters did more than just clear the way ...

Robinhold is executive director of the Port of Portland, which is a member of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition. He lives in Portland. A building revolution is underway in Oregon. Mass timber is ...