ACTIVITIES AND PANELS

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

From Custom to Production: Five Builders on Scaling Mass Timber Homes

Oregon Ballroom 204
Track 1

Moderator:

Tim Seims
Founder
Build Perspectives Podcast
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About the session...

North America builds 15,000 log homes annually, yet almost zero builders use mass timber at scale. Why? This panel brings together five builders from Washington to Ontario who are actually building single-family and townhome mass timber projects, some successfully, some only through extreme resilience, to answer that question.

Expect honest dialogue about what pencils and what doesn’t. No PowerPoint cheerleading. Just real project costs, supply chain gaps, installer challenges, and what went wrong on actual jobsites. Each panelist will issue one specific challenge to the audience: What must manufacturers, suppliers, code officials, and the industry change to move mass timber from boutique custom homes to production scale?

If you’re a homebuilder considering mass timber, or a supplier wondering why builders aren’t buying, this panel will bring the unvarnished truth about scaling residential mass timber, and the roadmap forward.

Jeb Thornburg
Co-Founder, Architect
Tieton Cabin Company
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Mark Wille
High Performance Builder
Build ~ Risinger Build
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Justin Koziol
CEO
Aera Systems
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Kyle Hanson
Founder / CEO
Timber Age™
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Jackson Wyatt
CEO and Founder
CABN Co
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