RISON — The depressed U.S. housing market has stunted demand for most wood products, but wood-utility-pole makers have escaped most of the recession's effects thus far. Treated Materials Co., which ...

Wildfires always have been a part of our environment. For a variety of reasons, in recent years wildfires have been growing in both frequency and intensity, dramatically increasing the level of ...

Over the years, through projects such as the Green School and homes at the Green Village, bamboo has become an increasingly popular material in Bali, Indonesia. While design firms in Bali such as ...

Overhead powerline asset management strategies should be in place even before the assets are in the ground, as the service life of a structure can be dramatically increased by implementing best ...

Cox Industries is attaching passive EPC Gen 2 ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID tags to wooden utility poles after they are manufactured at its Blackstone, Va., facility, in order to track their location ...

TORONTO, Nov. 5, 2014 /CNW/ - Wood poles installed 50 years ago during the expansion and electrification across Ontario are now approaching end of life. To help ensure reliability and public safety, ...

It might require a double take to notice, but there’s a little more room to maneuver on some Lancaster city sidewalks thanks to PPL’s efforts to remove some unneeded utility poles. Since January, the ...