TallWood Design Institute

Please join TallWood Design Institute (TDI) alongside Karen Joslin and Rachel Wrublik of PAE Engineers, as well as Lee Glassford of KPFF Engineers as they discuss the carbon story behind mass timber—material selection, carbon accounting and green certifications through the lens of their recent project, the PAE Living Building in Portland. Once completed, the PAE [...]

This event has passed. You can view the recording here. Please Join the TallWood Design Institute along Dr. Mark Fretz and Dr. Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg of University of Oregon’s College of Design as they discuss their research investigating wood as a modern building material, and specifically, its impacts on environmental and human health and [...]

Timber bridges compose over a quarter of all bridges in North America, yet they compose only 7% of bridge expenditures on existing bridges mostly for maintenance. Meanwhile, new timber bridge construction is under 1% of all expenditures for greenfield bridge construction. However, the world view on timber is changing with the advent of mass timber [...]

Hosted in Portland (OR), the 2023 TDI Mass Timber Research Symposium is a half-day event dedicated to sharing the breadth of mass timber research projects and faculty expertise coming from TDI's faculty collaborators throughout the Colleges of Engineering and Forestry at OSU and the College of Design at University of Oregon.