Roughly half a dozen times each season, Joey Webber will pack his chainsaw into a trailer and drive to the thickly forested outskirts of the Portland area to bring back a 12-foot cut of Douglas Fir.

The huts and homesteads that dot our high-country national parks are built from a range of materials. But it is the timber slab buildings that most evoke the mountain past.

A move towards a built environment that centers sustainability and embodied carbon is driving innovation within mass and hybrid timber construction. In this piece, Buro Happold considers the power and ...

Slab huts are so distinctive in Australia's vernacular architecture, and in the high country they are special indeed. Namadgi National Park is fortunate to have two intact timber slab huts. One is ...

As part of the EIC Pathfinder-funded research project “Universal Timber Slab”, scientists from the University of Stuttgart are developing digital planning and production methods for novel wooden ...