The Corvallis Parks Maintenance and Operations Facility shows how mass timber can deliver high performance and a strong sense of place in an everyday civic building. Located within Avery Park, the 34,500-square-foot facility replaces a collection of aging structures with a consolidated, purpose-built home for parks staff, maintenance operations, equipment, and vehicles. Designed for durability, operational efficiency, and long-term adaptability, the project creates a healthier and more functional workplace while connecting the facility architecturally to its wooded park setting.

A defining feature is its exposed mass timber structural system, which pairs glulam columns and beams with prefabricated Mass Ply Panels (MPP). The large-format MPP system supports efficient fabrication and installation while keeping the wood structure visible as an integral part of the interior character. Warm, tactile timber surfaces bring natural materiality into staff and work areas, while the structural system reinforces the project’s broader goals for sustainability, regional material use, and resource-conscious civic design. Together, the glulam and MPP demonstrate how mass timber can be applied beyond signature cultural or commercial projects to create durable, high-performing municipal facilities rooted in the Pacific Northwest.

Timberlab’s Millersburg CLT Manufacturing Facility is a 192,000-square-foot plant in the heart of Oregon’s Willamette Valley, built to meet the growth of the North American mass timber supply chain. An innovative industrial building designed in collaboration with Lever Architects and DCI, Millserburg’s annual capacity is 100,000 cubic meters, roughly 7 million square feet of CLT, running on an automated feeding system, high-speed cross-cut saws, finger-jointing, a radio-frequency CLT press and a central extraction system for processing. The line handles Douglas Fir, Southern Yellow Pine, Spruce-Pine-Fir and Alaskan Yellow Cedar.

The Millersburg facility completes a fully integrated supply chain: Douglas fir becomes glulam at Swisshome and Drain, CLT panels are manufactured and fabricated at Millersburg, and complex glulam assemblies are precision-fabricated in Portland, Oregon and Greenville, South Carolina. Together these facilities turn regionally sourced timber into high-performance structural components, including AcousDeck CLT Panels(TM) and innovative finish products including Resolve GLT (TM) and Acoustic Wall, (TM) supplying projects across North America. For International Mass Timber Conference attendees, the plant is a short trip from the conference: 78 miles and about 75 minutes south of Portland International Airport on I-5, or 53 miles from Eugene Airport.

Get an up-close look at the mass timber systems, design and tribal-sourced materials shaping Catlin Gabel School’s new Schnitzer Center. Currently under construction, the center features an 800-seat gymnasium defined by dramatic 112-foot-long glulam beams, exposed dowel-laminated timber in the Commons and lobby and a mass plywood panel social stair. Tour participants will hear directly from the project team about the design and engineering decisions behind these systems, including how they balanced performance, cost and architectural expression.

Attendees will learn how the team traced and tracked tribal-sourced glulam from the Yakama Nation in partnership with Sustainable Northwest and integrated multiple mass timber systems throughout the building. The tour offers a firsthand look at the opportunities and challenges of designing with mass timber across a range of structural and architectural applications.