Forestry on the Mind
The snow is melting, and spring is around the corner! The Red Falls Timber team is starting our chainsaws getting ready to move away from the laptop and get into the woods. It is a great time to refl...
Logistics and Transportation
In prefabricated construction, logistics and delivery represent a cost in terms of dollars as well as carbon. Sourcing material far from your building site means these costs increase, however, its im...
Talking Timber with Chat Gp
Red Falls Timber Co: Is Mass Timber a superior approach to building? Chat GP: Mass Timber is a type of building construction method that uses large solid wood panels or engineered wood products to ...
Steel: Timber's Best Friend
With ALL of Glulam's positive traits - aesthetics, carbon capture, strength-to-weight ratio - there are still some things it doesn't do very well. Because Glue laminated timber -such as GL24 spruce- ...
Exploring "Outsulation"
In developing a mass timber building kit, we cannot get very far before we must assess the thermal performance of a building. Mass timber has some benefits in this area: 1) Airtight- Because the ele...