This publication translated into Arabic combines AHEC’s guide to species and the guide to lumber grades into a single illustrated and comprehensive guide to sustainable American hardwoods. The front half of the publication gives a full breakdown of the properties, applications, environmental credentials of the commercially available U.S. hardwood species. The back gives a simplified explanation of the NHLA grading system, which is the national standard for the U.S. hardwood lumber industry and forms the basis for export grading.

The Smile is the most ambitious cross laminated timber structure ever built. Designed by Alison Brooks Architects and Arup using American tulipwood cross-laminated timber. The Smile was a ground-breaking Landmark Project for the London Design Festival 2016 set to transform the way architects and engineers approach timber construction.

Room on a Hill is the elevated playground designed by Asif Khan using thermally modified American tulipwood and ash for Chisenhale Primary School in Bow, East London, UK.

Khan, who has two children at the school, approached the American Hardwood Export Council and AKT II structural engineers to collaborate with him on the project, while the active parent body at the school raised funds through fetes and other events held throughout the year.

The Workshop of Dreams unites four of Spain’s most exciting architects and designers, with inspiring talents from diverse cultural fields, in a celebration of Spanish creativity and craftsmanship. Together they realised four unique dream objects using American red oak, tulipwood, cherry, maple, alder, walnut and gum.

Our new online tool shows the forest distribution, growth and removal of American hardwood species across the United States and is available online, now. This technology presents accurate information at fantastic detail – from the whole of the United States down to individual counties – and demonstrates visually the true sustainability of American hardwoods.