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Tuesday, March 16 • Tour Day
Mass timber has to be seen to be believed. Join us for a behind-the-scenes journey through extraordinary buildings and the facilities that make them possible — guided by the people who design, fabricate, and raise them.
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Tour tickets no longer require an event attendee pass.
- Coach transportation provided (to and from the Oregon Convention Center).
- Lunch provided.
- Coco Donuts (gourmet and handmade in Portland) and hot coffee/tea served before departure. Courtesy of Henkel.
- Safety helmets, vests, and other protective equipment provided.
- Tours do NOT include an attendee badge.
- All of the tours happen simultaneously, so you must choose one or the other.
- All tour attendees must ride on the provided buses — no riding to and from tour stops in separate vehicles is allowed.
- We may tour one or more active construction site(s), so attendees must wear long pants and sturdy, close-toed shoes such as hiking or work boots. Anyone wearing short pants, skirts, dresses, raised heels, tennis shoes, open toed shoes or other attire not appropriate for an active construction site may be excluded from certain stops.
- The weather in Oregon can be cold and rainy, so come prepared with a warm jacket, warm hat, gloves, and rain jacket. Sunglasses can also come in handy at times.
In Person Tours
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In-Person Tour8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Tour CutMy Timber’s Portland fabrication shop — 30+ years of experience, 1,000+ projects — where digital fabrication turns timber into precision components. Visit the Timber Core Manufacturing Facility, where Carpentry Plus builds its prefabricated modular mass timber stair systems. Then step inside La Plaza Esperanza, “a place of hope” — a flagship community center and winner of ENR Northwest’s Project of the Year award built with regionally sourced Douglas fir.
Site 1: CutMy Timber Mass Timber Fabrication
Site 2: Timber Core Manufacturing Facility
Site 3: La Plaza Esperanza
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Tour 2
In-Person Tour9:00 AM - 4:45 PM
Explore Rosboro’s newly expanded Springfield campus — a $120 million investment by North America’s largest glulam producer. See the University of Oregon’s “2.MO” Practice Football Facility mid-construction: a 170,000 sq ft athlete performance facility whose curved, timber-framed roof — inspired by the Oregon “O” — will make it the largest indoor practice facility in the country. Finish at Blanchet Catholic School’s Multipurpose Center in Salem, a community-scale athletic and event space built with mass plywood panels.
Site 1: Rosboro’s New Manufacturing Campus
Site 2: University of Oregon’s “2.MO” Practice Football Facility
Site 3: Blanchet Catholic School Multipurpose Center
Tour 3
In-Person Tour9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Tour the Corvallis Parks Operations & Maintenance Facility, where glulam and MPP frame a durable, solar-equipped municipal building. Then step inside Timberlab’s Independence Hall — a newly completed, 900-foot-long mass timber facility that will manufacture 7–9 million square feet of CLT annually, one of the largest plants of its kind in the nation. Finish at the Schnitzer Center at Catlin Gabel School, a 36,000 sq ft hybrid timber hub for dining, athletics, and community gathering, mid-construction on the Portland campus.
Site 1: Corvallis Parks Ops & Maintenance Facility
Site 2: Timberlab’s Independence Hall
Site 3: Schnitzer Center at Catlin Gabel School
Tour 4
In-Person Tour10:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Visit the site of the new Hillsboro Police HQ, a mass timber civic facility built to consolidate two outdated precincts, withstand a major earthquake, and serve as the city’s emergency operations center. Continue to the Oregon Acoustic Research Lab, a one-of-a-kind research facility where engineers will test how mass timber walls and floors perform acoustically. Finish at the Mississippi Workshop, Oregon’s first all-timber commercial building and a WoodWorks award winner, designed and built by Waechter Architecture.