The Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act is back in Congress for the third year running. Three straight attempts at the same bill usually means the industry side is ready and the policy side is still catching up.
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In the States Senators Merkley and Risch just introduced the bipartisan Mass Timber Federal Buildings Act, aimed at getting mass timber into federal buildings and military construction. Demand signals like this move slower than headlines suggest, but they move in one direction.
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Bergen Gardens is a six storey CLT memory care facility built with Bird Construction as GC. It is one of the first of its kind in Manitoba. That is what commercial mass timber capability actually looks like.
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Fire performance in CLT is not a leap of faith. Mass timber chars predictably and holds structural capacity longer than most people assume. Ask for the test data, not the reassurance.
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Mass timber is not slower than steel and concrete once the shop work is counted. The schedule advantage shows up before the crane does.
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A shop drawing that resolves every connection before fabrication is worth more than a render that resolves none of them.
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Massachusetts just launched a 12 month accelerator with grant funding for mass timber project teams, first time and experienced alike. Public money is now chasing mass timber expertise. That tells you where this is headed.
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