Mass timber technique goes beyond engineered wood. It can be simply piles of wood. I saw an architect’s own residence built entirely from sawn timber and pegs.

Mass timber technique goes beyond engineered wood. It can be simply piles of wood. I saw an architect’s own residence built entirely from sawn timber and pegs. It is also consider a mass timber structure. Engineered wood products may help span large distances and things like that but it seems like the category “mass timber” requires mainly the use of wood where previously one might have used another material, and the use of simply more wood instead of cavities. It is really the opposite of wood frame construction.