Glulam (glued laminated timber): an Australian guide
July 25, 2026
Glulam, or glued laminated timber, explained: how it’s graded in Australia, where it works, how it performs, and how it’s produced.
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VIDEO: Could a rise in mass timber and CLT cause deforestation? New research says yes
June 23, 2026
A 2025 paper in Nature Communications makes the strongest quantified case yet for building with mass timber at scale. But it also highlights the potential for deforestation.
La Crêta Farmhouse shows us the art of taking away
March 25, 2026
The most profound thing Bard Yersin did to this 18th-century Fribourg farmhouse was strip away layers from an earlier renovation. La Crêta is an adaptive reuse project that proves sustainable design’s most powerful tool is restraint.
