Your Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) deck is looking better all the time. By Robert Wyatt, WIR Contributor What started out as a sketch on a legal pad and some footing holes in your backyard is starting to resemble something to enjoy for years to…
Tall Wood Building, check it out: “From developer Hines and designed by Michael Green Architecture and DLR Group, this new office building’s seven stories and 220,000 square feet of mixed retail and office space will have a strong draw on…
Trying to be a conscientious consumer can be difficult, especially when we’re always dragging misconceptions from the past behind us. When it comes to wood versus plastic, most of us had our ethical compasses set in the ‘80s, when the answer to…
The town of Chester in New York State plans to convert its municipal buildings from oil-fired heating systems to bio-fuel. Their city buildings will use wood pellets (learn more about biomass here) and will therefore save the town thousands of…
Fun Fact: According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration “About 80 percent of the wood and wood waste fuel used in the United States is consumed by industry, electric power producers, and commercial businesses. The rest of the…
