Timber Framers Guild

The Timber Framers Guild (the Guild) is a non-profit, international, membership organization established in 1985 in the United States to improve the quality and education of people practicing the millennia-old art of Timber framing buildings and other structures with beams joined with primarily wooden joints.

Today the stated goals of the Guild are to provide "... national and regional conferences, sponsoring projects and workshops, and publishing a monthly newsletter, Scantlings, and a quarterly journal, Timber Framing "[1] In 2019, the Guild purchased the Heartwood School, which had been established in 1978 to teach skills and knowledge required for building energy-efficient homes and now focuses on timber framing, serving beginning to advanced students.

The Guild is not directly associated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, but works closely with similar organizations.

The philosophies vary widely with some members being innovative and designing buildings of the future, some use computer-controlled machinery to cut frames, some work only with traditional hand-powered tools.

The Guild created a training program for apprentices to learn the art and science of traditional timber framing from mentors called journeyworkers.

This covered bridge near Guelph, Ontario, Canada was a Guild project in 1992
Kicking Horse Pedestrian Bridge, Golden, British Columbia , completed in September 2001, is the longest freestanding timber frame bridge in Canada