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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Mass Timber Case Studies Deep Dive #1
Oregon Ballroom 204A Place to Call Home Within Oregon's Tallest Mass Timber Structure
Five months into operations, how has Oregon’s tallest mass timber building helped address Oregon’s largest humanitarian crisis? This presentation, led by the architect and developer of Julia West House, discusses how 90 units of Permanent Supportive Housing on a tight urban site in downtown Portland have provided housing, hope, and a sense of homecoming for BIPOC individuals and houseless elders. For attendees interested in the intersection of biophilia, innovations in mass timber, and trauma-informed design, this presentation will detail the process of creating an energy-efficient and healthy building designed to support Portland’s most vulnerable populations, all while meeting rigorous new standards for Type IVB structures.
The team will share lessons learned and insights gained from design, construction, and the first five months of operations of this first-of-its-kind building.
Mass Timber Affordable Housing: Let’s See You Do It Better (No Seriously, I Bet You Can!)
This session shares lessons learned from TimberView, one of Oregon’s first fully prescriptive Type IV-C affordable mass timber projects. Now occupied for over a year, the project provides a chance to reflect on the full journey — from navigating codes and cost constraints to balancing sustainability and constructability, to market reception and resident experience.
You’ll hear what worked, what didn’t, and how the next wave of teams can do it even better. We’re not guarding secrets here; the goal is to raise the floor for everyone tackling similar projects. Let’s trade notes, laugh at the bruises, and build better, bigger, and more sustainable affordable housing together.
Affordable House: Mass Timber Solutions
As cities face growing pressures around affordability, climate resilience and livability, innovative projects like Catalyst’s 18-storey CLT affordable rental development in North Vancouver offer necessary solutions. Targeted toward architects, engineers, developers and municipal leaders this session explores sustainable mass timber construction and affordable housing. Attendees will gain insights into using CLT in construction and the unique challenges. In depth review of challenges such as; structural grid constraints, moisture protection and prefabricated balcony systems and how the team transformed these into creative solutions. Furthermore, it will provide insight into integrated mixed-use programming, BIM enhanced coordination and the permitting process for tall wood buildings, with practical takeaways for implementing similar projects in other cities.
Pre-Clad Prefab: Hybrid Mass Timber Affordable Housing in Boston
Boston faces an urgent need for more affordable housing. The Bunker Hill Housing Redevelopment Project is addressing this challenge head-on by pioneering the use of hybrid mass timber structural system with prefabricated components to enhance efficiency, lower embodied, and reduce construction timelines and cost.
The redevelopment will replace 42 existing 1940’s buildings (1,100 units) with a new mixed income residential neighborhood, housing 2,699 units in 15 new 6-10 story buildings, integrated with the surrounding Charlestown neighborhood.
Building M, the development’s first building, set a new standard for affordable housing. The Passive House certified 6-story, 102-unit building employs a range of prefabricated elements: CLT floors, prefabricated and pre-clad load bearing exterior walls, prefabricated load bearing corridor walls, precast concrete cores and pre-assembled steel stairs. This project establishes protype construction techniques for future phases of development.
Building F, starting construction Q1 2026, is the second phase building, with 266 Units and 9 stories and will be Boston’s first high-rise mass timber building.
This presentation will highlight innovative building technologies of the hybrid mass timber structural system, 7-ply CLT panels, pre-clad load bearing CFMF exterior walls, lessons learned from M, and improvements to the approach for Building F.
