Hardy Wentzel, a 40-year veteran of the timber sector and CEO of Structurlam, the Penticton, B.C.–based firm, reports that Structurlam is close to commissioning their first U.S. plant in Conway, Arkansas. The new 287,000-square-foot facility will produce glulam and CLT.
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Apple’s Former Design Director BJ Segal Establishes Juno a Mass Timber Housing Company
BJ Segal, Apple’s former design director, has recently established a mass timber housing company named Juno. Architect Segal, who worked for 19 years designing Apple stores — most recently as senior design director of real estate and development — believes that Juno can create housing that dispels people’s preconception about modular buildings.
American Wood Council Supports Mass Timber Pilot Program for Department of Defense
Following the House Armed Service Committee’s markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included language to establish a pilot program to evaluate the effects of using mass timber products in Department of Defense (DOD) military construction projects, American Wood Council (AWC) President and CEO Jackson Morrill issued a statement in support.
Maine’s First Complete Mass Timber Structure Being Built at Bowdoin College in Brunswick
Brunswick, Maine’s Bowdoin College is soon to become home of the first complete mass timber commercial structure in the state of Maine and also the first commercial structure in Maine to utilize a mass timber lateral system to resist wind and seismic loads.
MTI Researchers to Seek Answer: Can Ontario’s Wood Supply Keep up with Growing Mass Timber Usage?
The up-and-coming new material for sustainable building is mass timber. Mass timber could be part of the climate change solution and become the cornerstone of the Province of Ontario’s economic and environmental future. The question now is can supply keep up with the rising demand? Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty’s Mass Timber Institute (MTI) are about to go in search of that answer.
Element5’s New St. Thomas, Ontario Factory is Industry Certified and Running at Full Strength
Element5’s new St. Thomas, Ontario factory is now industry-certified and running at full strength. The new plant lays claim to being the most fully automated mass-timber plant in the world. Combined with an existing factory in Ripon, Quebec, Element5 now has the capacity to produce over 50,000 cubic meters of CLT and glulam per year.
Mercer International Acquires State-of-the-Art CLT Manufacturing Facility in Spokane, Washington
Mercer International, which operates or jointly operates several pulp and paper operations in Canada and Germany and runs a timber service in Germany, announced on Wednesday (8-3-21) that it has received approval from a U.S. bankruptcy court to acquire a state-of-the-art cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing facility in Spokane, Washington.
TimberQuest Provides Innovative, Sustainable, Highly Efficient Solutions for Mass Timber Classrooms for California K–12 and Community Colleges
TimberQuest is the partnership between XL Construction, Milpitas, with Aedis Architects, San Jose and Daedalus Structural Engineering, based in Saratoga, and combines the organizations’ unique expertise in 21st century learning environments with mass timber design and construction.
Mass Timber Construction and Technology to Merge in New Mass-Timber Office Building in Vancouver, BC
Texas-based Hines, a privately owned global real estate investment firm founded in 1957 with a
presence in 25 countries, has linked with PC Urban of Vancouver to build the largest and tallest mass-timber office building in Western Canada.
Construction Begins on the Darrington Wood Innovation Center in Darrington Washington
Construction is officially set to begin on a 100-acre, $ 73 million timber innovation center in Washington state. First announced in July 2020, the Darrington Wood Innovation Center will house a mass-timber production facility and serve as a hub for innovative wood product manufacturing.