Mass Timber: Better Buildings, Resilient Forests, Brighter Future
We're creating equitable economic development and family-wage rural and urban jobs from sustainable wood products that are grown and manufactured in Oregon.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded Oregon Mass Timber Coalition a $41.4 million Build Back Better grant to advance Oregon’s sustainable mass timber sector. This investment will drive jobs, sustainable forestry, and mass timber housing.
Mass Timber Rising
Expanding the mass timber ecosystem can address the region’s three grand challenges: housing, forest health, and economic disparity. The Coalition, through strategic projects, is using mass timber to advance equity, innovation, and sustainability in the region. Learn more about the work in our film project, Mass Timber Rising.
About the Coalition
The Coalition is a partnership between Oregon’s leading research universities and government agencies.
T2: Building Innovation Hub
The T2 Building Innovation Hub is a signature project of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition, led by the Port of Portland.
Located on the 53-acre Terminal 2 site in Portland, the facility will build and supply mass timber panels for modular homes, which will be barged and trucked from Terminal 2 to communities in need around Oregon.
News & Events
Upcoming Events
A.A Red Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory
3205 Southwest Washington Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
The TallWood Design Institute is hosting an "Open House" at our A.A. "Red" Emmerson Lab at Oregon State University. We will be hosting a tour of the first prototype of our mass ply panel house.
The house is two-stories with two bedrooms (around 760 sf) and was designed to serve as "cottage clusters" and Accessory Dwelling Units. The house is built almost entirely from 2 and 3 inch prefabricated mass plywood panels. Mass plywood panels allow for precise prefabrication and can be "flat-packed", shipped to a site and quickly assembled, to make a thermally and seismically resilient house.
Join us for a first-hand walkthrough of the house prototype and learn about plans for the next phase of research.
Featured News
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University-led efforts focused on microfluidic technology for semiconductors and mass timber design and manufacturing each have received $500,000 awards from the White House.
Big things are growing in the land of big trees. Mass timber may not be a household term yet, but the potential for a sustainable supply chain from the forest to the front door has a lot of people excited.
