Project name: Multnomah County Holgate LibraryLocation: Portland

Completion: April 2025

Size: 21,000 square feet

Cost: $17,590,743

Owner: Multnomah County

Architect: Bora Architecture & Interiors

Interior Designer: Bora Architecture & Interiors

Engineers: Equilibrium Engineers, Arris Consulting, Samata Consulting Engineers, Vega Civil Engineering

General Contractor: Swinerton

Submitting Company: Swinerton

Other Associates/Consultants: Colloqate Design, Elevate Building Commissioning, O-LLC Lighting Design, PLACE (landscape architecture), Timberlab

Subcontractors: A&R Solar, Andres Landscape, Apollo Mechanical Contractors, Berrien Concrete, Building Material Specialties, Castle Masonry & Restoration, Code Unlimited, Cosco Fire Protection, Custom Designed Skylights, Dennis’ Seven Dees Landscaping, Don Frank Flooring, Figure Plant, General Sheet metal Works, Hyphn, Interior Technology, Interlaken, J.S. Perrott & Co., Kodiak Pacific Construction, KONE, Lensa Consulting, Madlyn Metal Fab, Mill Plain Electric, Norse Ironworks, NW Umpqua Roofing & Waterproofing, Oregon Door Consultants, PBS Engineering & Environmental, Pioneer Waterproofing, Portland Coatings dba Williamsen & Bleid, Prestige Tile & Stone, Qualified Enclosure Consultants, Shiels Obletz Johnsen, Sign Wizards, Skyline sheet Metal, South Town Glass, T. Gerding Construction, Techsource Enterprises, The Grenebusch Group, Ultra Quiet Floors, Valley Shades, Vanco Contracting, Vega Civil Engineering, Vertex Technology Design & Consulting, Washington Commercial Painters, Western Partitions, Whitaker/Ellis Builders

The newly opened Holgate Library in Southeast Portland has transformed from a modest 6,400-square-foot facility built in 1971 into a 21,000-square-foot community hub designed to serve one of Portland’s most diverse populations.

The library, part of Multnomah County’s bond measure to revitalize Portland’s library infrastructure, stands prominently along Southeast Holgate Boulevard with features aimed at serving all age groups.

The project is a strong example of how community engagement, design innovation and sustainability building practices create a built environment that will serve the entire surrounding community for years to come. The building’s design resulted from extensive community input through focus groups, public meetings and surveys. Teens participated in a four-week virtual program called “Your Library, Your Voice” to help design the library’s first enclosed teen space in the system. The room was envisioned as a “home away from home.”

Sustainability was central to the construction approach. The library utilizes a hybrid mass timber structure that reduced the building’s carbon footprint by 61 percent compared to conventional steel and concrete construction. The ground floor features a denser column layout to support heavy book loads, while the second floor has fewer columns for a more open design.

The mass timber frame utilizes Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) for floor and roof decking, Glue-Laminated Timber (glulam) for primary structural support, and Buckling-Restrained Braces (diagonal steel elements) for lateral stability.

Designed to receive LEED Gold certification, the building incorporates radiant flooring for thermal comfort and a rooftop photovoltaic system to offset energy usage.

The library features advanced amenities including a large play and learning space for children, a dedicated teen room, flexible programming rooms, and the latest technology with high-speed internet. An outdoor plaza provides space for reading and socializing.

Construction company Swinerton served as the CM/GC, bringing in its subsidiary, Timberlab, for the mass timber components. The project maintained zero recordable injuries throughout construction.

The project also emphasized economic inclusion, with Swinerton implementing a Project-Specific Workforce Diversity Program. Swinerton’s project team also assumed the role of mentors, guiding businesses through the intricacies of preconstruction and construction phases. In addition to fostering strong relationships and supporting their sustainable growth, Swinerton provided comprehensive training that included technical skills, project controls, budget management, and project execution. The project and these efforts helped three companies acquire COBID certification. The Holgate Library project had a 25 percent diverse business goal (COBID) and hit 34 percent.

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Each year, the 91��Ƶ editorial staff compiles a list of the contractors, engineers and architects that are shaping skylines and redefining the industry through their outstanding work. This year’s Power Lists features 20 companies that are leading the AEC industry into 2023 (in no particular order).

GBD Architects

GBD Architects is behind some of Portland’s most recent mega-projects. Highlights include Block 216, a 35-story giant rising out of the city’s downtown; the eight-acre RiverPlace master plan development near the South Waterfront District; and the 30-story RiverPlace tower. The firm’s most recent large-scale work is a proposed 22-story tower in the Pearl District.

Andersen Construction

Andersen Construction has served as the contractor for several of Portland’s recent tall multifamily developments. Projects include Alta Art Tower, a 21-story, 314-unit mixed-use tower; the Sutton (previously “Fremont Place”), a 17-story apartment building; and the Alamo Manhattan Blocks that include a 23-story mixed-use tower and a six-story mixed-use building.

LEVER Architecture

LEVER Architecture is one of Portland’s leading architecture firms in mass timber with projects such as Albina Yard and Redfox Commons. Now it is turning this early innovation into a maturing excellence. The firm hit a significant milestone in 2022 when Portland’s Design Commission approved Sandy Pine, a planned 12-story mass-timber tower. If built, Sandy Pine will be the city’s tallest timber development.

ZGF Architects

As the largest architecture firm in Portland, ZGF Architects has taken on some of the city’s most high-profile projects. Recent highlights include the ongoing $1.95 billion Portland International Airport Main Terminal Core project that features a nine-acre timber roof as well as the PAE Living Building – poised to be the world’s largest commercial living building.

Carleton Hart Architecture

Carleton Hart Architecture is one of Portland’s most prominent firms for designing affordable housing developments. It is a cornerstone of the firm’s mission-driven focus. Projects in recent years have included Nesika Illahee, Mamook Tokatee and Red Rock Creek Commons. One of the firm’s most recent endeavors consists of the complete renovation of the Joyce Hotel in downtown Portland into permanent supportive housing.

PAE Engineers

PAE Engineers is the “brain” behind the recently completed PAE Living Building, which is slated to be the world’s largest living commercial building. Sustainable systems designed by PAE allow the four-story building in Portland to be primarily independent of any city systems. PAE also provided mechanical, electrical, fire protection and technology system design and engineering for the University of Oregon’s modernized Hayward Field, which recently hosted the World Track and Field Championships.

KPFF

KPFF is the engineering firm behind some of Oregon’s largest commercial projects – and more. Work includes Block 216, Oregon State University’s Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building (91��Ƶ Project of the Year 2021), Portland International Airport’s (PDX) Concourse E extension, and the PAE Living Building.

Howard S. Wright

Howard S. Wright is the general contractor behind the largest building in Portland since the U.S. Bancorp Tower – Block 216. At 844,117 square feet, the project will likely become the largest Portland building of its era. It will house 158,000 square feet of office space, a five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel with 215 rooms, and 138 residences.

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Walsh Construction is the general contractor for many sustainable and complex projects and myriad affordable housing developments. The contractor recently constructed the four-story PAE Living Building, which required that every item be thoroughly researched and approved against a list containing the “worst in class” materials, chemicals and elements concerning human health and the ecosystem. More than 2,700 materials were vetted for the project.

LMC Construction��

Affordable housing has become a cornerstone of the Portland-metro development market. Many general contractors tackle such projects, but LMC Construction is behind most. More than two-thirds of the contractors’ work is building affordable homes. Projects include Red Rock Creek Commons, Nesika Illahee and Cathedral Village Apartments.

Hoffman Skanska JV

Hoffman-Skanska is the joint venture contractor formed to partly undertake the $2 billion modernization of Portland International Airport. At the heart of this endeavor is the $1.95 billion main terminal project that involves a new nine-acre, mostly cross-laminated-timber roof structure. The entire roof will weigh about 18 million pounds. A self-propelled modular transporter capable of carrying a submarine is being used to move each section into position. Officials anticipate the roof being fully installed soon and the entire terminal updated in 2025.

Kiewit

Kiewit Corp. is known for tackling projects that would be described as large, massive, and complex. All three terms represent the general contractor’s current undertaking with the Abernethy Bridge project that spans the Willamette River. The venture involves drilling more than 200 feet into the earth below the water to place new bridge foundations capable of withstanding a significant seismic event. It is the first major interstate freeway construction project in Oregon in nearly 45 years.

TVA Architects

TVA Architects is one of Oregon’s most high-profile firms, and few others have placed as large a stamp on the state. Projects include Park Avenue West, Fox Tower, and the University of Oregon’s basketball palace – Matthew Knight Arena. Most recently, the firm designed the Sutton (previously called “Fremont Tower”) – a 17-story residential tower under construction on the banks of the Willamette River.

R&H Construction

R&H Construction is building some of Portland’s largest multifamily developments. Projects include Freewell, Saltwood South and Tiller Terrace – a six-story, a 214-unit development in the Goose Hollow neighborhood. Recently, R&H broke ground on Splash Apartments – the first phase of the five-acre Pop Blocks development.

David Evans Enterprises

Oregon’s largest engineering firm, David Evans and Associates, has worked on a wide range of notable projects in the state. Recent highlights include the Newberg-Dundee Bypass, in which the firm designed two new bridges and seven support structures. DEA’s work on the Oneonta Tunnel rehabilitation project also earned . The 2017 Eagle Creek Fire severely damaged the tunnel and rendered it unusable until DEA’s work allowed it to reopen in spring 2021.

Harper Houf Peterson Righellis

Regarding transportation infrastructure improvements in Oregon, Harper Houf Peterson Righellis is one of the key players. The firm is behind the Clackamas Regional Center improvements, which involved widening a bridge that spans Interstate 205 at Sunnyside Road, as well as the Willamette Falls Drive streetscape improvements project that topped the transportation category for the 2022 ACEC Oregon Engineering Excellence Awards.

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Mortenson is a general contractor with a long reputation in Oregon for building challenging and unique projects. Recently, the contractor has undertaken a significant renovation of the Multnomah County Behavioral Health Resource Center – a 116-year-old building in downtown Portland.

SERA Architects

SERA Architects has worked on some of Portland’s largest multifamily developments in recent years. Projects include Freewell, the Saltwoods, Tiller Terrace and more. Most recently, SERA drew up Slabtown Savier, a two-building multifamily project under construction in Northwest Portland.

BORA Architects

BORA Architects is behind several notable projects in Oregon, including the Cosmopolitan – a 28-story residential tower in Portland’s Pearl District and the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact on the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus. One of the firm’s most recent undertakings is the modernization of Lincoln High School in Portland; It is one of the first high-rise schools west of the Mississippi River.

Swinerton��

Swinerton is a leading general contractor for mass-timber innovation in Oregon. Recent projects include the Wingspan Event and Conference Center in Hillsboro, Steeplejack Brewing in Portland, and Oregon State University-Cascades’ Edward J. Ray Hall in Bend.

Clarification: An earlier version of this story implied an incorrect association for Swinerton to the Beaverton Public Safety Center project. Swinerton was the mass-timber subcontractor for the project.

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The single largest project in the overhaul of Portland International Airport – creation of a new main terminal – is well under way.

But instead of a typical ground-up building process, construction of the most striking and eye-catching portion of that new structure – its roof – is taking place in the northeast corner of the airport property, next to the Port of Portland Fire Department headquarters.

Designed by ZGF Architects to emulate Oregon’s lush forestlands, the mass-timber roof is an ode to the local environment. The undulating structure consists of a skeleton of enormous steel girders fabricated by Evraz in Portland. Those are connected by a series of massive, arching glulam beams made from Douglas fir by Zip-O-Log Mills of Eugene. Topping it off are hundreds of two-inch mass-plywood panels made by Freres Lumber of Lyons.

“It was very important to Port of Portland leadership, so they worked strategically with ZGF on developing the specifications on this prescribed sourcing,” said Katrina Day, a senior project manager with Hoffman Skanska Joint Venture, the project’s general contractor. “It’s intended as a nod to the local community and making sure that we’re reinvesting in Oregon for the project.”

The prefabricated roof is an ingenious solution to some unique construction problems.

First is the building site: a busy international airport that before the pandemic was serving nearly 20 million travelers per year. The sheer volume of people moving though PDX and the importance of the airport as a travel hub means it cannot be shut down for construction – and assembling the roof in place would have required that for safety and security reasons.

“If you stick-built this over the terminal, these members are too big,” Hoffman Skanska senior superintendent Jason Koski said. “You couldn’t build anything like this and have an occupied building. So, by doing these large modules, we’re able to keep the terminal open at all times during construction.”

Instead, the project team took over a 20-acre site next to the near the fire department headquarters and poured a reinforced concrete pad engineered to support the weight of not only the roof structure, but also the massive hydraulic jacks and self-propelled modular transporters that will be used to move the finished roof segments across the airport’s north runway to their eventual home.

“We’ll set those at night in roughly a six-hour window where we can shut the building down,” Koski said.

The full roof will be assembled in spring 2022 from 20 separate pieces. Of those, 16 will be “super modules” featuring arched glulam beams topped with mass-plywood panels fabricated by Freres Lumber and milled into shape by Swinerton subsidiary Timberlab at its Northeast Portland plant. The other four will be smaller “cassettes” to fill in spaces left over.

“Nobody has ever made them to this standard, and nobody has ever made an arched glulam this large,” Day said. “In fact, in the design, they were spliced halfway through because there was no standard for designing to know whether they were constructable. So, Zip-O (employees) took it upon themselves to build a full-size mockup to ensure we could eliminate the splice.”

That effort was successful, and the resulting 80-foot-long beams are up to 9 feet tall.

The wood for the glulams was sourced from local forestlands managed by the Yakama, Coquille and Skokomish tribes as well as other landowners practicing responsible forest management.

“We’re putting our first layer of roofing on,” Koski said. “And we’re putting in all the lighting conduit, the fire alarm conduit, the sprinkler system, the roof drains, and then acoustical panels.”

About 60 percent of the lattice that decorates the interior part of the structure in graceful curves will be installed beforehand, according to Swinerton superintendent Brendan Kelly.

A lot of work was needed in the design and engineering phase to come up with the plan, Port of Portland Construction Services Manager Brad Harrison added.

“We started from scratch, but to stick-build this thing it became apparent that it would almost shut down the airport,” he said. “The contractor was like, the more modular construction you can do, the better, from a whole cost perspective and a safety perspective.”

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Swinerton decided a number of years ago that it wanted to be a significant player in the burgeoning mass-timber market.

Since launching Swinerton Mass Timber, the firm has contributed to delivery of a large number of projects featuring cross-laminated timber, mass plywood and other products. Then, in March, as an evolution of Swinerton Mass Timber.

The company’s former equipment rental warehouse in Northeast Portland has become a 23,000-square-foot fabrication facility that includes a custom-made Biesse five-axis computer numerical control (CNC) milling machine capable of handling glued-laminated beams as long as 60 feet.

“We’re a complete design-build firm, doing work nationally on mass-timber structures, and as a subcontractor and vendor to other GCs and owners,” Timberlab President Chris Evans said during a tour of the plant off of Northeast Columbia Boulevard.

In addition to providing design-build timber structures and fully coordinated mass-timber supply packages, Timberlab offers licensed timber engineering and mass-timber product development. The new fabrication facility is where much of that work takes place.

“The whole intent of this Biesse machine is to handle beams that are needed for long-span office buildings and tall timber buildings,” preconstruction manager Erica Spiritos said. “It’s really to eliminate any dimensional constraints that we would otherwise have on CNC machines that are operational in the region, or even in the country, and build capacity to handle the fabrication for the type of members that are needed in the buildings that we are increasingly building.”

While most fabricators of cross-laminated timber or similar products also incorporate CNC milling into their workflow, Timberlab now has the ability to fabricate or mill complicated designs into the rough, manufactured glulam beams and columns that support most mass-timber structures.

“Our whole thing is about being flexible, so part of this was to provide a needed resource within the industry,” business development manager Sam Dicke said. “The glulam manufacturers near us are without secondary fabrication ability to make it into a component. So, this is really about cutting pieces to make those pieces into building components and bring all those glulam manufacturers into the commercial mass-timber market that they might not otherwise be in.”

Much of Timberlab’s efforts are intended to simplify and shorten the time frame of construction on jobsites by focusing on details like connections, sealants and preconstruction work. For example, a new tracking and quality control system uses colored labels with QR codes that identify every unique piece of mass timber for a given project. Each piece corresponds to its counterpart in the project’s 3D model, which allows immediate tracking and improved quality assurance.

Meanwhile, the colored tag affixed to every finished piece of mass timber shows which certification program may have played a role in the procurement process. Timberlab uses FSC (Forest Stewardship Council), SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative) and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification) certified products, as well as noncertified products.

“This allows our crews in the field to scan this QR code and know exactly where this beam has been and where it needs to go,” Dicke said, “and they can relate it back to the model.”

The Biesse CNC machine is currently being put to use for the massive Terminal Core Redevelopment project (T-Core) at Portland International Airport, as well as another project at the University of California, Santa Cruz, involving glulam beams as long as 50 feet.

The T-Core project is taking up much of Timberlab’s time these days. The shop crew is fabricating 36,000 pieces of FSC-certified Douglas fir lattice supplied by Sustainable Northwest Wood, as well as Freres Lumber mass-plywood panels to frame 18 massive skylights.�� These components, paired with nearly 400 80-foot-long glulam arches and a mass plywood roof diaphragm, will comprise the airport terminal’s new ceiling – all sourced from sustainably managed forests and manufactured by mills and laminators in Oregon or Washington.

“It’s 36,000 pieces of 3-by-6 Douglas fir members that all have a different geometry to conform to the undulating roof structure,” Spiritos said. “It’s very precise geometry, so we’re fabricating those pieces and also the mass-plywood skylights.”

It’s a lot of work for a small shop crew, production manager Martin Chabot said.

“There are six of us in the shop, but it’s about to go up dramatically,” he said. “We’re going to start an evening shift to be able to keep up. We’ve been full-on for the last two weeks in here, and obviously the planning for longer than that. But we could be nonstop just focusing on T-Core full time and it would be a year without doing anything else.”

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An unusual adaptive reuse project is under way in Northeast Portland: a 112-year-old former church is being transformed into a brewery.

Steeplejack Brewing Co. owners Brody Day and Dustin Harder had sought to start a brewery since college. Instead of taking the “easy route” of opening in a warehouse, Day said he sought space that could signify community. The former church at 2400 N.E. Broadway was a natural choice, he added.

The duo enlisted Open Concept Architecture and Swinerton to help turn their business dreams into reality. But renovating a building erected in 1909 (then-President William Howard Taft placed the building’s cornerstone during a visit to Portland, according to a snippet on the Steeplejack Brewing website) to be able to accommodate industrial equipment and modern-day mechanical systems has come with challenges.

“Every element was ever so slightly out of compliance,” architect Rebecca Morello said.

From the outset, Day and Harder were committed to salvaging as much of the building as possible. Other than a few patches of dry rot on the roof and water leaks from some cracked ceiling beams, the structure wasn’t in terrible condition. Any salvageable wood is being reused as tables for the brewery.

“Time-consuming and lots of work, but we wanted a flagship building to stand apart and be a part of the community,” Day said.

The brewery’s design mainly focuses on revealing the building’s abundant character. For example, the curved, wooden trusses that warp across the ceiling continually draw visitors’ eyes. Also, light pours in through a large stained glass window.

At the front of the space will be a tank farm sunken about four feet below the main floor with a white oak bar above. There, people will be able to watch brewing operations and even interact with staffers. Directly opposite the tank farm, in the back, will be the main, horseshoe-shaped bar with stools alongside. Stretched out in the middle will be long community tables.

All of those elements will form the heart of the taproom, Morello said.

Along the main room’s outskirts will be smaller rooms, each with unique character and ambience. One room will be a private dining area with a long table and a refurbished fireplace. Another will be a television room, and another will have leather sofas and chairs along with a refurbished fireplace.

In addition to being able to view brewing operations at the front, patrons will be able to see mash being made in the mill room via floor-to-ceiling windows on the side of the main room.

“We wanted to create an atmosphere of curiosity and discovery,” Morello said.

Day convinced stained glass artist David Schlicker, who created the large replacement window after the original was destroyed in a fire in the 1980s, to come out of retirement and make smaller, square stained glass panels for the rest of the main room’s windows.

“It’s a little bit overwhelming in how this is all going to come together in the end,” Morello said.

Swinerton was hired late last summer to execute this complicated project. Construction began in February and is slated to finish in mid-summer. Along the way, Day said, workers have discovered lots of little surprises.

“Construction practices back then to now is vastly different,” Swinerton superintendent Ben Hoover said. “They didn’t have structural concrete footing, so the building is just sitting on the dirt.”

Another surprise was that the sewage line was connected to the brick building next door lower downstream. The whole system had to be dug up and built anew.

Also, a chimney in the basement was found constructed horizontally underground so that smoke was released off the side. Crews had to remove the chimney, Hoover said.

All cracked ceiling beams are being replaced. The new ones weigh roughly 12,000 pounds each, so a number of people are teaming up to lift and install them.

Initially, the basement bathrooms were thought to be OK. However, the installation of completely new plumbing and electrical systems meant the bathrooms had to be gutted.

“Not easy transforming a church into a brewery,” Day said.

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Last year, Oregon State University completed a long-range expansion plan for its Cascades satellite campus in Bend that calls for construction of entirely net-zero-energy structures on a former pumice mine and landfill.

The first major project of that initiative is now in the design stage as SRG Partnership works with Catena Consulting Engineers and construction manager/general contractor Swinerton on a four-story, 50,000-square-foot academic building. A host of green strategies – including a photovoltaic solar array, an exterior shading system, radiant heating and cooling systems, gray water storage, and other active and passive systems – are expected to ensure the building produces more energy than it consumes.

“We’re pretty excited about this project for a variety of reasons,” SRG Partnership principal Carl Hampson said. “It’s very aspirational with what the university is trying to do.”

An ambitious master plan calls for construction of dozens of new academic, residential and student life buildings. This first one, dubbed Academic Building 2 for the time being, will be used for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics education.

Construction will take place on part of a former pumice mine. The site, Hampson said, will eventually serve as a gateway to new campus development along with a future student center planned for an adjacent parcel.

“That will be the defining feature of the campus,” he said.

The new academic building will have a rectangular floor plate. It will be oriented east-west, with the longer sides facing north and south to maximize effectiveness of a rooftop solar array.

Roughly half of the ground floor will be embedded below grade because of the slope of the site. That slope, however, has allowed designers to include a large amphitheater with both indoor and outdoor seating divided by a two-story curtain wall system.

“We’re bringing it inside the building so the landscape and the building become one gesture,” Hampson said. “Plus the indoor space has quite a bit of flexibility because adjacent to it are two large classrooms that will have partition walls so they can reconfigure that overall space for a variety of uses.”

All four floors will have learning spaces, including specialized classrooms able to accommodate curriculum-specific equipment. Laboratories and engineering spaces are planned, along with maker spaces for art, engineering, computer science and outdoor product programs. Other collaborative, informal spaces will serve both staff and students.

The project is intended to be a model for the rest of the proposed net-zero campus. In part, this flexibility comes from the mass-timber structural elements, which allow for long interior spans and the ability to easily reconfigure interior walls.

“We’ve laid the building out in a narrow floor plate,” Hampson said. “We’ve got 30-foot-deep bays with a central corridor running down the middle and no columns in the bays. That way you can divide that long linear space however you want to move the program inside.”

Structurally, glulam beams and columns are being used along with cross-laminated-timber floor panels. Only the slab-on-grade foundation and shear walls at each corridor’s end will feature concrete so the project’s carbon footprint can be minimized.

“We looked at different options,” Hampson said. “We were looking at them from a cost standpoint and which supported the modular flexible approach, and all of them worked. But the mass timber made the most sense. The erection time is less than steel, so there’s cost benefit there. But the biggest benefit is all of this wood expressed on the interior.”

One final unique element is the building’s core. It contains elevators, mechanical systems and restrooms.

“We’ve centralized everything in one location so it simplifies distribution of systems and creates an order that can be then replicated,” Hampson said.

On the exterior, a series of vertically oriented metal panels will provide shade to large windows that will stretch from low-slung sills to the underside of the deck on each floor. Central Oregon’s climate influenced this choice.

“It’s much colder in the winter, but because of the functions in the building there are lab spaces and such that generate heat,” Hampson said. “The cooling loads will put more of a strain on this building, so we’re making sure to maximize the daylight in here. But we’ve organized the patterning to minimize the excess heat gain and created some solar advantages with the metal panel on the window.”

Ground has not been broken yet; however, project literature lists fall 2021 as the target to open the building.

“It’s a very dynamic building,” Hampson said. “But also from a cost standpoint, given the challenges of net zero and building on the edge of a mine and the sloping site, I think we’ve come up with a very strong solution that balances all the elements.”

On the Boards is a 91��Ƶ feature offering a look at the projects in Oregon being tackled by local architecture firms. To have your firm’s projects considered, send an email to newsroom@djcOregon.com.

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Swinerton has officially launched Swinerton Mass Timber – a subsidiary dedicated to building mass-timber projects.

Swinerton Mass Timber is headquartered in Portland, and has a second office in Greenville, South Carolina.

“Swinerton Mass Timber represents our commitment to shaping the future of building,” Swinerton CEO Jeff Hoopes stated in a press release. “Utilizing this technology, we know mass timber will help us build more quickly, more safely, and deliver the most cost-efficient structures in markets nationwide. If you look at our company’s rich history, Swinerton was one of the first builders to pioneer steel-reinforced concrete building, and I’m extremely proud that we are on the forefront of mass-timber building as well.”

Swinerton’s mass-timber projects in Oregon include the First Tech Federal Credit Union headquarters in Hillsboro, the Washington County Event Center in Hillsboro and the Beaverton Public Safety Center. Elsewhere, the contractor has completed the Viega U.S. headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado; the Rena Ware headquarters in Kirkland, Washington, and three buildings for the University of California at Santa Cruz.

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