Q What’s your opinion on timber frame construction for a home compared with traditional stick-built designs? A “Stick-built” refers to the studs, joists and trusses that are used to build typical ...

Before they built, they prayed. This wasn’t your average construction site. Then Tedd Benson spoke. To most anyone beyond a corps of people who call themselves timber framers, his name might not mean ...

As a child growing up in Big Sky country, Scott Butcher found a comforting appeal in rustic homes and barns. “I worked in my grandfather’s timber frame barn back in Montana, and loved the feel, the ...

With its bright white siding, metal roof and wraparound porch, the large Lewis Center home looks like a nice farmhouse. But a step inside suggests a far more complicated tale. The home, crafted for a ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich University in Switzerland are using a new method for digital timber construction in a real project for the first time. The load-bearing timber modules, which are ...

When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

Some high-profile projects by Vermont timber framers have been attracting attention over the past few years. Off Route 2 in Richmond, expert Eliot Lothrop is supervising a major, multiyear restoration ...

A workshop in timber frame home construction will be held May 18-23 at a site 6 miles southwest of Naperville. Timber framing is a type of post and beam construction that was popular in Colonial ...

Three leading organisations in the timber and construction sector – Timber Development UK (TDUK), the Structural Timber Association (STA) and Swedish Wood – have launched a new digital platform ...