BOOM! – At precisely 8:32 a.m. PDT on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helen’s, a volcanic peak in southwestern Washington state, suffers a massive eruption devastating some 210 square miles of wilderness. The aftermath is astounding. The land where native forests proudly stood moments ago is now the graveyard for millions of trees tossed like…
The Ontario Lumber Manufacturers Agency is an independently owned, fully bilingual agency offering lumber grading and/or stamping services to our licensed facilities and individuals for the last 50 years. We are an accredited agency of the Canadian Lumber Standards Accreditation Board (CLSAB) and the American Lumber Standard Committee, Inc. (ALSC), and a member of the…
Every 6 minutes our forests grow enough wood to build an 18-storey apartment building. Advanced engineered wood materials and sophisticated fabrication technologies are re-shaping the ways buildings are planned, designed, and constructed. These advances in wood construction technology are also facilitating increasingly larger, and taller, wood structures that will change how we build our cities…
The Wood Design & Building Awards is the only program to award excellence in architecture in which wood plays a significant role. As a result, winning architectural projects are featured in the Winter Edition of Wood Design & Building magazine. Award winners are a diverse group of architects, engineers, and creators and embody a range…