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by Tyler Durden Friday, May 07, 2021 - 08:00 PM With lumber prices up 67% since the start of this year and up 340% from a year ago, according to Random Lengths, a wood products industry tracking firm, adding tens of thousands of dollars to new residential builds, there is a viable new option to construct a home (lumber free) through machine-printed clay.  Machine-printed clay homes are lumber-free and mitigate the ecological impacts of construction could soon become a viable option for affordable housing.  The push for 3D-printed homes could already be underway due to the historic rise in ...

What's Behind the Surge in Lumber Prices? About this Channel MND NewsWire features plain and simple interpretations of industry related data and events written in a manner that maintains the interest of random readers while still catering to the perspective of a housing market professional. Share: May 7 2021, 10:55AM In a recent post on the National Association of Home Builder's (NAHB's) Eye on Housing blog, chief economist Paul Emrath said rising softwood lumber prices have added $35,872 to the price of an average new single-family home, and $12,966 to the marke...

How One Sawmill Explains the Skyrocketing Price of Wood Slate 1 day ago © Provided by Slate White gold. Henry Grabar The late-pandemic supply-chain crisis never smelled quite as good as it did on Wednesday morning in Searsmont, Maine. The air on the 80-acre campus of Robbins Lumber was thick with the scent of Eastern White Pine—the tallest trees in the Maine forest—being sliced into boards. Yet the warehouse, a cavernous hangar designed to stores pallets of finished lumber for shipment, was virtually empty. The company cannot keep wood on the shelves. “Traditionally, these tiers ar...

The late-pandemic supply chain crisis never smelled quite as good as it did on Wednesday morning in Searsmont, Maine. The air on the 80-acre campus of Robbins Lumber was thick with the scent of eastern white pine—the tallest trees in the Maine forest—being sliced into boards. Yet the warehouse, a cavernous hangar designed to store pallets of finished lumber for shipment, was virtually empty. The company cannot keep wood on the shelves. “Traditionally, these tiers are about four deep with lumber on both sides—you can hardly get a unit of lumber down the middle,” said Alden Robbins, t...

Soaring lumber prices affecting new home buyers, renovations | Money Smart If you’re thinking about building or fixing a home, be prepared to pay more. The pandemic has affected demand for lumber and prices have soared to all-time highs. Author: Sharon Ko Updated: 4:27 PM CDT May 6, 2021 SAN ANTONIO — If you’re thinking about building, renovating or repairing your home, be prepared for higher costs. The coronavirus pandemic has affected demand for lumber and prices have soared to all-time highs. The coronavirus pandemic impacted just about every industry ...