From traditional wooden frame construction to state-of-the-art wooden houses and their demolition and reconstruction
The first article summarizes the construction advantages that wood construction has against labor shortages and skill saving, and the second article discusses the advantages that wood construction has against on-site [...].
*Click here for the first part of the report: "Okayama Model": Transformation to a Resource Self-Sufficient Nation and Urban Wood Construction, Challenged by Industry-Government-Academia [...] Report of the Symposium on Forest Circular Economy [...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hold WOOD Collection (Moku Collection) 2026, an exhibition and business meeting aimed at expanding the use of domestic lumber, on February 12 and 1 [...].
As we saw in the first article, wooden construction is a reality for a construction industry facing a skills shortage and declining productivity, allowing for industrialization and skill reduction [...].
While issues such as stagnant demand for domestic lumber and a shortage of forestry leaders are becoming apparent nationwide, the company boasts the nation's largest production of Japanese cypress and has a CLT (direct [...]].
Takamatsu Construction Group recently received a patent for its "bundling material," which is based on the traditional techniques of miya carpentry. This is the group's [...].
Sekisui House, in collaboration with the University of Tokyo's "KUMA LAB" and other industry-academia organizations, has developed the C [...] used in the Japanese Government Pavilion (Japan Pavilion) at the Osaka/Kansai Expo.
The expansion of wooden construction in Japan is driven by policy demands such as decarbonization and the use of domestic timber. However, at the site level, another crucial factor cannot be overlooked [...]
The WOOD Collection (MOKU Collection) Management Office has conducted a nationwide survey of businesspersons regarding "workplace environments with trees" [...].
The "Ichigao Condominium Project (tentative name)" promoted by the Yokohama Municipal Housing Supply Corporation has recently been awarded the "2025 Excellent [...]" by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Obayashi Corporation has been working on BIM (Burn Depth Calculation) for wooden structures in accordance with the Fire Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method and the Evacuation Collapse Prevention Performance Verification Method.
The development of "Wooden Cities (R)" is one of the pillars of the forestry industry's revitalization, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by turning cities into "second forests," or [...].