Areas of Focus

scientist examining wood in a lab

  • Alternative, plant-based adhesives

  • Carbon accounting with sensors

  • Complementary forest products in mass timber systems

student testing large wood beam

  • Composite structures

  • Acoustics and vibration in mass timber systems

  • Improved structural performance of timber members using novel high-performance reinforcement elements

  • Blast resistance of mass timber components

wood model of a building

  • Pre-construction planning and estimating for mass timber systems

  • Constructability

  • Designing for disassembly and next-use

  • Mass timber-based thermal and ventilation strategies

  • Building systems and mass timber assembly integration

  • Optimized design, economy, and environmental impact of tall and heavy mass-timber structures

  • Mass timber manufacturing

  • Mass timber for retrofit

  • Projects: Breathing Wall and Thermal Mass and Buoyancy Ventilation

Publications

Patents