Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Construction Podcast
Mass Timber Market Updates - July 2025 - Week TwentyEight
The latest Mass Timber Construction Podcast delivers breaking news from around the globe, celebrating groundbreaking achievements in sustainable wooden architecture. Host Paul Kramer highlights several milestone projects reshaping our built environment through innovative timber solutions.
Utah's Baltic Point has just made history, becoming the state's first mass timber building to reach 100% occupancy. Located in the heart of Silicon Slopes tech hub, this sustainable structure has attracted venture capital firms, consumer retail companies, and defense manufacturers, proving the market's growing appetite for eco-conscious workspaces. Meanwhile, the newly completed Kilowana International Airport terminal showcases British Columbia's leadership in timber design and construction, demonstrating how large-scale infrastructure can embrace sustainability without compromise.
Scientific validation continues to power the mass timber revolution, with Nature Communications publishing comprehensive research confirming what industry leaders have long advocated: widespread adoption of engineered timber products positively impacts carbon storage while potentially expanding forests. This research aligns with projects like the Ruby Falls headquarters and Skanska's AI Research Building at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—both exemplifying how timber construction meets rigorous performance standards while delivering environmental benefits. The podcast also highlights the Rothoblast Build the Impossible competition, challenging designers to explore hybrid steel-timber combinations that represent the future of construction: using "the right material in the right place for the right purpose, at the right time, in the right amounts."
Ready to join the sustainable building revolution? Check out the Build the Impossible contest and follow the podcast's LinkedIn feed for striking images of completed projects mentioned in this episode. Subscribe to stay informed about global developments in mass timber construction and be part of the movement transforming our built environment one wooden building at a time.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. This is the moment you all have been waiting for. It's time for the global sensation, the one, the only, the undisputed heavyweight podcast in the world the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. And now here's Paul Kramer, your host. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening wherever you are in the world today, welcome to the Most Timber Construction Podcast. My name's Paul Kramer, your host. Thank you, bruce Buffer, the veteran voice of the Octagon, for doing our podcast introduction every week.
Speaker 1:Don't forget, the Rothoblast Build the Impossible competition, or contest is a launch pad for your career. Winning means your name will be made in the world of timber construction. But that's not all. You get to present your prestigious project to the finalists at the Mass Timber Seminar in 2025 at the headquarters at Rothoblast in Italy. If you want to know more, please head to the Build the Impossible Rothoblast contest page and you can get your entries in. Submit your project as soon as you possibly can and if you're a finalist, you might even make it on the podcast. Thank you to Rothoblast for your continued support of the industry and the development of students.
Speaker 1:Let's have a look at what else is making news around the world this week in mass timber construction land and to North America now. And Utah's first sustainable mass timber building, baltic Point, reaches 100% occupancy. The JAL announced Baltic Point, utah's first mass timber building located in the heart of the state's Silicon Slopes tech hub, has reached 100% occupancy. The signed tenants include venture capital firms, consumer, retail and defense and space manufacturing companies. The milestone of Baltic Point sets a new benchmark in sustainable office space in Utah and is indicative of the market's appetite for innovation, not only for the work to be done in Utah, but also spaces in the work done around the country. If you'd like to have a look at the image of the finished completed project, you can head to our LinkedIn feed. And the Kilaana airport has finished. The kilowana international airport terminal building is now being completed with 886 000 square foot of airport terminal. The expansion highlights the airport's commitment to sustainability, innovation and community reflection of the changing times for people having a more environmentally conscious and consumer-focused approach to construction and the built environment. Ylw received half a million dollars worth of the province's mass timber demonstration project funding from the BC mass timber engineered wood products industry and positioned BC as a leading leader in the world of design, engineering and construction using timber. If you'd like to have a look at the finished project. You can see it on our LinkedIn feed.
Speaker 1:Publications in Nature Communications, one of the highest ranked journals in the world, has offered a new study, a comprehensive global analysis of how widespread use of engineered TIM products, such as CLT, can impact carbon storage. The paper has been published and shows some interesting statistics which sort of align with previous research that was conducted around the world, pointing to the environmental carbon sequestration and reduction benefits for using substitutable materials such as biobased materials, including mass timber. If you'd like to read the article, you can go to nature communication and click on the link. Mass timber could drive forest expansion and cut emissions is the name of the article, and you can read it also as a link on our LinkedIn feed. And HK Architects design a mass timber office building for the new Ruby Falls headquarters. Rooted in sustainability, the new Ruby Falls corporate office in in Mass Timber Construction is designed for LEED certification, honoring the park's 96th legacy years Of inspiring extraordinary connections to nature. The building will be seamlessly blended indoor and outdoor environments with a lookout mountains natural setting to meet sustainability standards, including energy efficiency, water conservation, sustainable human-centric material selection, natural habitat protection and indoor environmental air quality. If you want to have a look at the construction photos of this, plus the final concept drawing, you know where to head.
Speaker 1:Over the years, we've been doing a lot of focus on Dialogues work and the concept of bioregionalism is a path that potentially leads to sustainable building materials, says Ryan, who was one of the winners of Dialogues Iris Prize, for low carbon components, and these could be sourced locally. So there's an article talking about how using bio-based materials construction-based materials as a substitute, can be beneficial. And if you'd like to read more about what Ryan has to say, you can head to our LinkedIn feed, because it's really, really good stuff. There's a great little section detail for one of the systems that they've been working on. Please do go check it out.
Speaker 1:And good friends of the podcast Skanska have topped out in timber at New York AI Research Building. Construction has topped out on Skanska's Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology Building at New York's Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The three-story building is made from CLT and it hosts scientists with a relatively new field of neuro AI, containing 15% principal investigators, 96 postdoctoral and doctoral students and research administration officers and 10 meeting rooms. When completed, the whole center which will be in 2027, will expand the neuroscience and cancer biology labs, plus all the parking garage. It received $500 million in the second phase of its project for 81,000 square feet research housing and conference center and a 56,000 square foot housing and collaborative research center for visiting scientists. You know where to go if you want to check out more.
Speaker 1:Well done to scanscan all the team down there. And that's it, folks. That's all we've got time for this week in mastimber construction land. We hope that you've had a great week. Do check back with us again next week for more updates from around the world. Don't forget the Rothoblast build. The impossible. Competition is on. It focuses on hybrid steel and timber combinations very, very useful for the way that we think that the world will end up building. It won't be purist technologies. It will be hybrids of technology using the right material in the right place for the right purpose, at the right time, in the right amounts. So, if we can make sure that we shape the way we build, that's what we're here to try and do is put forward ideas that are innovative, practical example that we can all learn from. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are in the world today. This is Paul Kramer signing off for the Mass Timber Construction Podcast. Thank you.