Although some historic downtown churches are closing, new church construction is increasing across the United States. Exposed glued laminated trusses and beams are an increasingly popular choice for ...

The popularity of glulam beams has skyrocketed during the past decade, particularly in the hospitality, religious, and education sectors, where appearance, sustainability, and long spans are often ...

Engineered wood products (EWPs) are used in a wide range of construction applications. For low in-place cost, versatility and superior performance, engineered wood systems are simply hard to beat.

This photo and information was originally printed in the 1963 Messenger Index. The largest glue laminated wood beams ever manufactured in Idaho left the beam plant of the Boise Cascade Mill at Emmett ...

Welcome back to the "Behold the Beam" series of articles. In part three (Firehouse®, September 2010) of the series, we discussed the first five of the 13 common types of beams that firefighters can ...

Zip-O-Log Mills owns Pennington Crossarm Co., a few blocks away on West First Avenue, which produces cross­arms for utility poles. The glulam plant will occupy about half of the Pennington building.

Structural composite lumber, such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), laminated strand lumber (LSL), parallel strand lumber (PSL), oriented strand lumber (OSL) (in development) and steam-pressed scrim ...

Each year, thousands of Arizona residents email or call Rosie Romero’s radio show with questions about everything from preventing fires in their chimneys to getting rid of tree roots invading their ...

DEAR TIM: I’m getting ready to build a large room addition that needs a beam to support the floor joists. I’ve been told that a wood beam will work, but I’ve always seen steel I-beams in other houses.

Rapid urban development in emerging economies—especially across Asia Pacific and Latin America—is increasing demand for efficient, fast-to-install, and cost-effective building materials. Glulam ...