Three Regions Mass Timber Grant

“Advancing mass timber as a climate solution in three U.S. cities to scale up its use and encourage long-term investment in new domestic manufacturing.”

Core Project Team: Core team: Olifant, Lambert Sustainability, Springboard Forestry
Lead Project Partners: SCB, LeMessurier, Turner Construction, Boston Society for Architecture, AIA-Colorado, AIA-Georgia, AIA-Minnesota

‘Mass Timber in 3 Regions’ is a two-year grant project designed to advance mass timber as a climate solution, encourage policy adoption that accelerates mass timber projects, and spark long-term investment in new domestic timber manufacturing. This work is funded by a 2022 USDA U.S. Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant.

This project builds on the successes of Olifant’s 2019 Wood Innovation Grant and Lambert Sustainability’s leadership role in the City of Boston Embodied Carbon Technical Advisory Group, which together resulted in the launch of the Boston mass timber accelerator program in 2022.

The project goal is to do the same for three new cities and their surrounding regions- Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Denver. Working in collaboration with AIA chapter partners in the 3 cities, the team will conduct regionally-based comparative studies on the carbon benefits of mass timber construction, cost and procurement considerations, forest sourcing, and current and potential U.S. mass timber manufacturing, developed into educational materials for use by AEC professionals and city planners. The overarching goal is to create robust, long-term demand for mass timber construction in these cities and nationwide that will encourage more U.S. mass timber manufacturing investment.