by ssbhayani | Jun 3, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Every building material makes an argument about where it comes from. Concrete says it came from industry. Steel says it came from somewhere far away and very hot. Wood says it came from here. When Calgary-based Little Giant described their Forest Studio on Vancouver... by ssbhayani | May 28, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
In Freeport, Maine, students and researchers now gather in a building that was designed to do more than shelter them — it was designed to teach them something just by existing. The Smith Center for Education and Research at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the... by ssbhayani | May 21, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot mass timber hub on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus in Northampton, Massachusetts. Designed by TenBerke with structural engineering by Thornton Tomasetti, the building houses the... by ssbhayani | May 18, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
What Your Grade Stamp Is Actually Telling You. Part 1 of 3: How Lumber Gets Graded This is the first in a three-part series from NELMA breaking down what’s in a lumber grade stamp and why it matters. Part 2 covers species designations. Part 3 covers the certification... by ssbhayani | May 6, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
In 2018, NELMA challenged architecture and design students to imagine a lunar colony built with wood. At the time, it read like creative speculation — an exercise in rethinking a familiar material in an unfamiliar place. Seven years later, with astronauts having just... by ssbhayani | May 1, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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. That requires designers, architects, and engineers who understand wood deeply enough to...