The Business Journals

DIA could change incentive consideration for high-rise construction

Building a high rise requires more expensive materials. Could the DIA change incentives to spur more of it? The Downtown Investment Authority is looking to encourage high-rise construction in the ...
Wall Street Journal

The Newest High-Rise Near You Might Just Be Made From Wood

More multistory buildings are being made with mass timber, or wood that is glued and pressed in special ways to make it structurally capable of replacing building materials like concrete and steel, ...
News4Jax

Wood-frame construction, like what was used in RISE Doro, is common in Florida because of its cost. But there are risks

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Wood-frame construction is permitted statewide in Florida and it’s a common choice for developers, even when it comes to high-rise apartment buildings like the downtown complex ...
The Washington Post

This old-school building material could take over city skylines

Architects are in a proof-of-concept race to construct sustainable wood high-rises. Oct. 31 at 6:30 a.m. SKELLEFTEA, Sweden — It is right to say that the construction of one of the tallest timber ...
Washington Examiner

Oregon looks to help logging industry with country’s tallest wooden high-rise

Portland, Ore., is planning to construct the nation’s tallest all-wood high-rise building in an effort to boost the state’s logging industry. Framework, a 12-story, 145-foot-tall building received ...
The Conversation

High rises made out of wood? What matters in whether ‘mass timber’ buildings are sustainable

Brent Sohngen receives funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Department of Higher Education, IGS Energy, and The Nature ...