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Oct

Forests’ Role in Climate Security

A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change details the serious threat posed by climate change, but underplays the impact healthy forests and the sustainable timber they produce can have in helping to solve the climate crisis. Writing by Frank Lowenstein, Deputy Director and Chief Conservation Officer After the torrential thunderstorm had soaked […]

By 36creative • Posted October 11, 2018

Sep

A University of British Columbia building made with mass timber

Build It With Wood’s Big Year

Writing by Build It With Wood Project Leader Nicole St. Clair Knobloch, photography by Pollux Chung. Last year, NEFF commissioned an analysis on the potential for a mill to produce cross-laminated timber (CLT) from New England wood. The work showed that CLT could be a viable regional forest product and building material, so we got […]

By 36creative • Posted September 25, 2018

Aug

Mass Timber Mills Coming to Maine — but where and when?

The mass timber supply chain is coming to New England but where and when, exactly, remains an open question. In February of this year, two companies announced they would be opening cross-laminated timber (CLT) factories in Maine within eighteen to twenty-four months. SmartLam, LLC of Montana committed to announcing a mill site as did North Carolina-based […]

By 36creative • Posted August 22, 2018

Aug

NEFF to Advise MIT Mass Timber Design Project on Affordable Housing

It seems that each month presents an exciting new partnership in service of bringing mass timber construction to New England. This August, NEFF has been invited to advise MIT architect John Klein on a project to bring affordable housing design to developers. The project, “An Engineering Demonstration for a Mass Timber Affordable Housing Prototype for […]

By 36creative • Posted August 21, 2018

Aug

Let’s get buildings built

Last summer, when we released our report on the viability of cross-laminated timber in New England, we did not quite imagine how quickly mass timber might begin to take off in our region. Mass timber supply is coming, with the announcements six months ago of two companies bringing CLT plants to northern Maine and a […]

By 36creative • Posted August 14, 2018

Apr

New Mills Bring Sustainable Timber and Jobs to Maine

An exciting and long-awaited announcement came in mid-February: A shuttered paper mill in Millinocket, Maine, will open once more, this time as a factory for cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other mass timber products. Two days later, another company also announced its intention to open a CLT plant somewhere in the state. Each plans to open […]

By 36creative • Posted April 17, 2018

Dec

Design of a building interior made with sustainable cross-laminated timber

NEFF Takes on Climate Change

NEFF is working to address climate change with a three-pronged, tree-friendly effort.

By 36creative • Posted December 7, 2017

Jul

NEFF Study: CLT is viable in New England

NEFF has released a report on the viability of engineered wood or “mass timber” products, particularly CLT, in New England

By 36creative • Posted July 27, 2017

Mar

NPR interviews leader in mass timber building design

Last fall, Here and Now’s Jeremy Hobson spoke with Michael Green, the Vancouver-based architect who has received international attention for both his support of wood construction and the wood buildings his firm has designed. Michael Green has been a longstanding proponent of building with wood. His TED Talk “Why we should build wooden skyscrapers” has […]

By 36creative • Posted March 20, 2017

Feb

Second Mass Timber Conference

Portland, Oregon is preparing for the second annual International Mass Timber Conference and it’s shaping up to be even bigger than last year. Produced again by Forest Business Network, the conference is attracting professionals from around the world to discuss innovative building products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber (nail lam), glue laminated timber […]

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