Browsing: Mass Timber
More healthcare projects in North America are considering mass timber construction to reap the benefits, including improved patient experiences and healing outcomes.
As the demand for life sciences facilities grows, so does the need for innovative, sustainable, and efficient construction solutions. Enter mass timber: a versatile and eco-friendly building material poised to revolutionize the design and construction of life sciences spaces. From the environmental benefits to the aesthetic qualities, mass timber offers a fresh take on the future of life sciences facilities.
Strong. Versatile. Resilient. Sustainable. These are just a few of the benefits mass timber construction offers—and part of the reason timber structures are taking the AEC world by storm. As demand for mass timber projects across the US continues to grow and evolve, designers, builders, and developers are constantly adjusting best practices.
Mass timber is having a moment in both large and small construction. But it’s not a new phenomenon. In fact, cross-laminated timber, or CLT, traces its origins to advances in wood processing and fabrication about 30 years ago in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
With a robust network of over 4,700 construction professionals, the STO Building Group is rich with experts spanning all facets of the construction industry. That means local project teams can readily access that companywide expertise and experience for the benefit of their clients and projects. Here, we highlight just a few of these experts and their areas of specialization.
Structure Tone New Jersey is diligently constructing L’Oréal’s new, state-of-the-art Research & Innovation (R&I) Center in Clark, NJ. With a $140 million development budget, this project marks the company’s most substantial investment in such a facility to date.
Mass timber is one of many strategies industry players can leverage to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.
Blueprint Robotics, a Baltimore-based company that produces wood-frame construction products is planning to build a 450,000-square-foot production facility in Windsor, Connecticut, that is said to be the largest North American industrial building erected entirely of mass timber.
The wood product represents a “huge untapped potential” to drive down the city’s carbon footprint, said the New York City Economic Development Corp.
A Houston project plans to achieve two firsts: the city’s first mass timber commercial office project, and the state of Texas’s first commercial office building targeting net zero energy operational carbon upon completion next year. Framework at Block 10 is owned and managed by Hicks Ventures, a Houston-based development company.