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Seven storeys made all of wood: International House Sydney is Australia’s first multi-storey office and commercial building featuring a supporting structure built entirely of wood.

The new International House Sydney forms the gate to...

Australia’s tallest prefabricated tower has reached full height in Melbourne’s CBD. The 133 metre, 44 level La Trobe Tower apartment building uses an innovative new prefabricated construction method developed by Hickory Group and designed by...

Until recently, there were two basic ways of using wood in construction: chop down whole tree trunks for heavy beams or saw them into two-by-fours. The first, which produced log cabins and medieval church roofs, is costly and inefficient today,...

With the planned 1800 Terry building in Seattle, Kirkland WA-based Seawest Investment Associates is gunning for the first urban high rise project to be awarded a priority green building permit from the Seattle Department of Construction and...

Offsite construction is an efficient way to construct wood buildings, says architect Randall Walter, who is from a design-build firm that makes a strong case for why its future is now.

Walter, of New Hampshire-based Bensonwood, says...

Nearly 800 families will be the next batch of beneficiaries of the government's subsidized housing program when they move in early next year. But theirs will be a bit different from other housing projects, the new homes in Baoshan district being...

The Metsä Wood division of the Finnish Metsä Group and the Finnish prefabricated-house company Sisco recently agreed to cooperate in the production of modules based on Kerto-LVL for the building of framed-construction prefabricated houses....

The Australian commercial construction industry has been slow to adopt prefabricated building products in their projects.

SBS Group, a leading manufacturer and supplier of prefabricated and prefinished frames and engineered facades for...

A persistent shortage of construction workers across the US is prompting some of the nation’s largest home builders to experiment with a model they once derided: factory production.

KB Home last month unveiled a model home equipped...

This section contains information on fixings, insulation, acoustics, roofing, walling and flooring systems. There are several CPD sessions being offered in the industry, which are designed to highlight the various solutions...