Researchers study fire behavior for better mass timber buildings
Setup for test three at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Fire Test Lab in Beltsville, Md., for the WOOWISE project to study fire behavior in mass timber structures. (USDA Forest Service photo by Dorothy Punderson)
MARYLAND – The 60-square foot exhaust hood in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and…
forest products laboratory
Wood is the new concrete: bridging carbon reduction and sustainable building materials
Construction underway on the Moffett Creek Bridge in Yreka, California. USDA Forest Service photo by Robert Moon.
WISCONSIN—“The Forest Products Laboratory is building a sustainable future by showing how wood and its components can reduce our dependence on greenhouse-gas-intensive materials…