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Nez Perce Clearwater Forest Service Supervisor’s Office Project at a Glance Type – Office building Services Provided – Structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering; fire sprinkler and low-voltage design Size – 15,000 sq. ft. Cost – $9M Completion Date – Fall 2021 The Nez Perce Clearwater Forest Service needed a new office building to serve as its home base in Kamiah, Idaho, for more than 70 permanent and seasonal USDA Forest Service employees. This new building uses a cross-laminated timber (CLT) roof system that is supported by glue-laminated (GLT) timber beams and columns to highlight a variety of the wood products native to the area. ItRead More →

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Mass Timber for Everyday Projects By Maria Chesnut, PE, MLSE – In 2010 a Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) supplier came to my office in the hope of convincing us they were manufacturing the next big thing in construction materials. I was fascinated. I was ready to make CLT (and other Mass Timber framing styles) happen. While I admittedly was much less skeptical a decade ago, this idea stuck: what if we could remove concrete and steel from buildings, embody carbon in them, and then make them easier to build by using tiny sticks of wood? Brilliant! The lunchtime road show and promise for building better failedRead More →

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