Drawing all eyes in a business district in downtown Yokohama, the Port Plus building is fashioned solely from tidy wooden columns and beams instead of the standard steel and concrete. The 44 ...

The material, called Moen-Wood, makes it possible to erect large buildings made of timber. Takenaka Corp., the Osaka-based developer of the new construction material, successfully built a wood ...

High St. "Our plan is to build Columbus’ first mass-timber building," said Dan Whalen, vice president of design ...

From the Japanese cypress to the ponderosa pine, wood has been used in construction for millennia. Though materials like steel and concrete have largely taken over large building construction, wood is ...