by ssbhayani | Aug 13, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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 frame exposed inside six flats in an Edinburgh mass-timber development, hoping the... by ssbhayani | Jul 23, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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 at making these houses perform. What they haven’t solved is making them feel like... by ssbhayani | Jul 16, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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. The Northeast U.S. has been sitting on the resource base to do the same thing for decades. Nobody’s built it yet. The... by ssbhayani | Jul 6, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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 pine makes the difference obvious. Push it toward a uniform, printable output and you get the opposite result. White pine planted... by ssbhayani | Jun 30, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
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 footprint as the rotting pool house it would replace. Six years after renovating their 1960s ranch house, the couple wanted... by ssbhayani | Jun 15, 2026 | #NELMA, Industry News, News
Walk through any architecture publication right now and wood construction means one thing: mass timber. Cross-laminated panels, exposed glulam beams, landmark buildings photographed at golden hour. It’s a compelling story, and the engineering behind it is real. But...