A Melbourne development has joined a push to grow the Australian timber tower movement and reduce the construction industry’s massive environmental footprint, but higher costs and fears of fire risks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction workers secure an engineered wood column onto the deck of the 12th floor of the Ascent apartment building on Aug. 2, ...

Using engineered timber instead of concrete and steel on commercial buildings may not be a lot more expensive, big construction firm Naylor Love says New Zealand's largest private construction firm ...

Houses can be made of wood, as they were in the past – or of concrete, as they are today. To build for tomorrow, the two building methods are being combined: these hybrid structures, which contain ...

Making new homes out of wood instead of steel and concrete could avoid more than 100 billion tonnes of CO2 being emitted over the next 80 years, and help avoid climate catastrophe, scientists have ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Timber has been typical in the construction of Australian houses for many decades, but when it comes ...

We live in a world of concrete. After water, it’s the most widely used substance on our planet, and its usage around the world, ton for ton, is twice that of steel, wood, plastics and aluminium ...

In short: A $30 million high-rise building made from timber is capturing the attention of industry and the local community alike in northern Tasmania What's next? Pressure is growing to use ...

The construction market is doing reasonably well these days and most concrete contractors are busy. So they aren’t particularly aware of the movement away from concrete in some markets to other ...