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Talking Timber: Highlights from International Mass Timber Conference

Mass timber is driving a significant shift in how we build. It’s renewable, low in carbon, efficient to build with, and it looks and even smells great. It’s becoming a truly disruptive force in the construction industry.

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So why aren’t more building projects using mass timber? How can we overcome the biggest obstacles to accelerating the use of mass timber globally?

In this episode, we get the inside running from last week’s International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, Oregon, the largest gathering of mass timber experts in the world, focusing on the entire industry supply chain.

What were the key trends at this year’s conference?

The event showcased cutting-edge advances in mass timber technology, from scaling, increasing adoption, removing barriers, allaying fears and increasing product understanding.

Innovation and Sustainability Director Stewart Germain from Skanska USA Commercial Development and mass timber specialist Erica Spiritos talk us through new insights into how modularity and prefabrication can speed up construction for mass timber buildings, how the public sector can accelerate adoption, and even how digital solutions are having an impact on mass timber construction.

Guests in this episode:

Stewart Germain, Director of Innovation and Sustainability for Skanska USA Commercial Development.

Erica Spiritos, mass timber specialist and Director of the Washington Mass Timber Accelerator, who is working to grow mass timber regional ecosystems.

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