Through architectural photography, technical diagrams, and expert prose, this book explores the environmental benefits as well as stylish and innovative uses of mass timber in non-residential buildings. Prized for its ability to sequester carbon, mass timber, including cross-laminated timbers, glulam beams, and laminated veneer lumber, is entering a critical second phase of its development as a beneficial and stylish building material for nonresidential buildings. Join award-winning author Boyce Thompson on a global tour of 16 of the most innovative and stylish projects made with mass timber. Content includes: . Projects such as the intricate Swatch headquarters in Switzerland, the world's tallest mass timber building in Milwaukee, WI, and a fairytale experience at the Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Denmark . Sidebars on carbon sequestration, moisture control, and acoustic properties of mass timber . Information on how software and computer-controlled robotic saws work with wood's malleability to revolutionize millwork . Details on how mass timber maximizes forest yields by utilizing small-diameter trees that might otherwise be wasted . The benefits of how quickly and more accurately mass timber buildings go together with less waste and less neighborhood noise AUTHOR: Boyce Thompson is the author of five works of non-fiction, including Lincoln's Lost Colony: The Black Emigration Scheme of Bernard Kock, published in 2023 by McFarland. The book tells the quiet, bloody history of a New Orleans' entrepreneur's attempt to establish a cotton plantation on a deserted Haitian island during The Civil War. Thompson is also the author of our books on residential design and construction. His latest, The Forever Home, outlines a method of designing and building homes to last a lifetime. It is based on interviews with three dozen owners of new and recently remodeled homes done during the pandemic. The book lays out a method for cost efficiently designing and building homes to last a lifetime. SELLING POINTS: . Covers 16 nonresidential, mass timber buildings from Europe, Australia, and the United States . An ideal book for anyone interested in design, green building, construction, and architecture . Featured architects include Japanese master Shigeru Ban, who designed the sprawling Swatch headquarters building in Switzerland 146 colour images
