Wood-framed construction might historically be associated with single-family homes, but mass timber – an engineered wood product – increasingly appears to offer benefits for a wide range of commercial building types.
Seven proposed Boston buildings are about to start testing whether real commercial development can move past carbon-spewing construction materials in a big way.
Developers weighing the use of mass timber building techniques have to decide whether the higher upfront costs of the environmentally-sustainable material is worth the benefits in trendy biophilic designs.
