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

Building Tomorrow’s Architects: Why Student Design Competitions Matter for the Lumber Industry

The lumber industry has long supplied the raw material for civilization — framing homes, shaping skylines, furnishing interiors. But raw material alone doesn’t drive innovation. ...

Board & Batten Siding — Eastern White Pine Manufacturers Should Be Paying Attention

For a siding style rooted in practicality — wide boards nailed to barn frames, with narrow strips sealing the gaps against a New England winter ...

A 1917 White Pine monograph has 2.4K reads — nearly triple our next most popular issue.

Over a century ago, a group of architects gathered at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, to judge a design competition for ...

The White Pine Monographs: 110 Years of the Lumber Industry’s Smartest Marketing Move

In 1915, the White Pine Bureau did something most industries wouldn’t think to do for another century: they hired a respected architectural editor, put serious ...

The Lowercase “s” That Changed Everything: What NH’s Bill 529: means for NELMA members

New Hampshire Takes a Stand for American Lumber A new Senate bill is putting SPFs on the specification sheet. Here’s what the grading debate is ...

An Evolution and Elevation of The Classic Cabin

Close your eyes. Picture a cabin in the woods. There’s a version of that cabin that lives in everyone’s imagination — raw-hewn logs, a stone ...