This photo and information was originally printed in the 1963 Messenger Index. The largest glue laminated wood beams ever manufactured in Idaho left the beam plant of the Boise Cascade Mill at Emmett ...

Engineered wood products (EWPs) are used in a wide range of construction applications. For low in-place cost, versatility and superior performance, engineered wood systems are simply hard to beat.

Zip-O-Log Mills owns Pennington Crossarm Co., a few blocks away on West First Avenue, which produces cross­arms for utility poles. The glulam plant will occupy about half of the Pennington building.

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On a cloudy day in early October, the architect Andrew Waugh ...

With environmental benefits and lower labor costs, mass timber has grown into a market that could rival steel and concrete in the construction industry. By Keith Schneider SPOKANE, Wash. — Although it ...

Topping out construction on an office building isn’t usually much of a headliner. But the structural completion of a Frisco building is different. It’s the first timber commercial building ...