Softwood Lumber Board Announces Addition of Industry Veteran Nick Milestone

The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) has announced that Nick Milestone, has joined the SLB to support its mission in the area of strategic partnership and adoption of mass timber construction in the U.S. Milestone is a veteran of the European and United Kingdom mass timber markets and is the current chairman of the Timber Research and Development Trade Association (TRADA). In making the announcement SLB President and CEO Cees de Jager said, “We are excited to have access to the experience and practical, on-site expertise that Nick brings with him. His 35 years of construction experience, including 15 years in the mass timber space, will assist the SLB in more aggressively pursuing all wood and hybrid wood-and-steel building systems to the U.S. market at scale.”