Wood Stories

Information about the industry, people and technology that make it a sustainable design option

Virtual Tour — The Monmouth Fire Department Museum and 9-11 Memorial

Take the Monmouth Memorial 3D tour and you’re walking through a site with two stories layered into it. The centerpiece is Monmouth, Maine’s original 1904 ...

Framing Studs as Design

Search “exposed structure” in architecture coverage right now and the results are almost uniformly mass timber. A few examples: Fraser/Livingstone Architects left the structural timber ...

Wood: Making High-Performance Homes Palatable

Strip away the marketing and a high-performance house is a machine: heat pumps, solar arrays, continuous air barriers, triple-glazed everything. Builders are getting remarkably good ...

Imagine This in the Northeast

A mid-size Czech city just built multi-story rental housing out of timber, on a budget, on schedule, for the first time in the country’s history. ...

You Can’t Print a Forest

Plant a single species in rows, on a schedule, at a set density, and you’re not growing a forest — you’re manufacturing one. Eastern white ...

Small Footprint, Full Warmth: Eastern White Pine Anchors a Portland Studio

When Jesse and Betsy went looking for more space on their Portland, Maine property, zoning gave them one option: build on the same long, narrow ...