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A new cross-laminated timber (CLT) manufacturing facility is coming to Oregon鈥檚 mid-Willamette Valley.

Timberlab, a Swinerton subsidiary and a national provider of holistic mass-timber systems, plans to construct and operate the 250,000-square-foot facility. It鈥檚 planned on a site near the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and the TallWood Design Institute, though Swinerton declined at this time to identify the exact location.

The design team includes architect LEVER Architecture and civil engineer Kimley-Horn. Swinerton will construct the building鈥檚 core and shell.

The initiative represents a significant milestone in the firm鈥檚 mission to accelerate the mainstream adoption of mass-timber construction across the United States, providing a low-carbon and renewable material for the construction industry, Timberlab stated in a press release.

鈥淭imberlab鈥檚 objective has been to remove pinch points in the mass-timber industry so that timber structures are affordable and widely usable in the U.S. construction market,鈥� Timberlab President Chris Evans stated in the release.

The CLT manufacturing facility is expected to help support the growing demand for sustainable construction alternatives nationwide. With automated processes, the facility may be able to produce 100,000 cubic meters of finished CLT products annually. At full capacity, the facility is expected to support 100 manufacturing jobs and becoming one of the largest facilities of its kind in the U.S., the release states.

Swinerton, initially through another subsidiary, Swinerton Builders, has been a pioneer in mass-timber construction since 2014. The firm opened its first mass-timber fabrication facility in Portland in 2020 and formally launched Timberlab in 2021. As mass-timber construction continued to grow across the U.S. in 2023, Timberlab expanded its operations by opening a mass-timber fabrication facility in Greenville, South Carolina.

Construction of the new facility is expected to start in November. The team鈥檚 target is for operations to begin in January 2027.