This Special Issue brings together emerging innovations and practical advancements that are shaping the next generation of timber construction. From breakthroughs in material science to high‑performance structural systems, our goal is to highlight how wood can contribute to safer, more sustainable, and more efficient buildings.

We invite contributions across the full spectrum of research and practice, including:

• Original research on materials, systems, testing, modelling, and structural performance

• Comprehensive literature reviews that synthesize current knowledge and identify future research needs

• Research case studies demonstrating innovative methods, analytical approaches, or performance insights

• Practical/industry case studies showcasing real‑world applications, challenges, and lessons learned

This Special Issue aims to serve as a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry partners who are advancing the science and practice of building with wood.

If your work aligns with these themes, we warmly welcome your submission. For more details, please visit the Special Issue page (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues/F5WJ269YMS), or feel free to contact me at zhiyong.chen@fpinnovations.ca. 

But there are some so great that should be recommended to more people.

This is a topic for that.

This topic is a recommendation of good papers in timber engineering. Please share the title, author, and Your honest comments/summary of the paper. Provide a link if possible, either to the journal or public link.

The only rules are:

• Only good papers worth people's time to read.
• You Should NOT recommend your own paper (but if your paper is really that good... your readers will post it).

Link to Paper

Link to Paper

https://doi.org/10.1080/23744731.2023.2299167

PDF freely available here: https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/68250

This paper summarizes some work we have been doing at the Forest Products Laboratory over the past few years looking at heat delamination in CLT. We compare our intermediate  scale test to results from the full scale PRG-320 test. 

We saw good correlation between the intermediate and full scale test. Let me know if you have any questions.

(PDF posted as it was published open-access).

It is quite difficult to find high quality reviewers nowadays. So if you are doing wood research/design and would like to help review journal papers on timber engineering topics, please leave a reply here. Please indicate the paper topics you would like to review and your experiences.

Or alternatively send me a Private Message

You do NOT have to have a PhD or MS to be a reviewer, it is really about how familiar are you with the topic. I have had best review from practicing engineers who have never going to grad school of doing research! 👍 

If you have any questions or comments, please leave a reply and I will try to answer them.

If the paper is not open-access, you can post and share your final draft copy (which you still have full copyright). Otherwise please just post the link to the article on the Journal website, or DOI.

Please try your best to write a simple and concise description of your paper's topic. And include the most important key words as tags. 

Now Why will you post paper here?

If you really feel your paper is addressing a problem that everyone is interested in, you should post it so everyone can see. This will increase your citation, and more importantly, it might lead to further discussion and future collaborations with the other members.

consider your paper post a natural continuation of your paper's life...

May all great papers and ideas live long! 😍