Moving the Goal Posts on Mass Timber
Construction on our recent mass timber buildings is well underway!
The Kreher Preserve & Nature Center’s Environmental Education Building at Auburn University (KPNC EEB) advances two-way span capability of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) with all wood point supports and cantilevers, while at Cornell University, The Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science (Bowers CIS) embraces mass timber in its most cost efficient and largest carbon storage strategy as CLT floor and roof panels on a steel frame structure.
Kreher Preserve & Nature Center, Environmental Education Building
Auburn, AL
The KPNC EEB is made with all local wood, Alabama’s southern yellow pine for cross laminated timber, glulams and other wood framing. Lifted off the ground, it eliminates concrete slab on grade and with butterfly roofs and high clerestory operable windows and fans, it advocates for a holistic sustainable strategy for low embodied and operational carbon.
