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.

Duluth's Natural Resources Research Institute is working to determine how best to use heat to make wood products less subject to rot, swelling and warping -- a process called thermal modification.

The American Wood Council (AWC), Leesburg, Virginia, and the Canadian Wood Council (CWC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, have partnered with the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA), Chicago, to ...

Writing in Nature, Yang et al. 1 describe a remarkable strategy for making a wood adhesive from lignin — the extraordinary polymer that strengthens and binds together plant cells. Lignin waste streams ...

Wood is a material with unique characteristics –such as its natural warmth and tactile quality– capable of providing a sense of comfort and well-being, evoking emotions and memories, and creating a ...