80 Mass Timber Construction Chicago Update

Floors 4 and 5 of the building are home to summit design build s new headquarters.
Mass timber construction chicago. A wood structured office building. In 2017 we published a research project in the ctbuh journal that examined feasible strategies for building an 800 foot 80 story timber tower in chicago. Fulton is a showplace for our company and an example of what is possible in the modern age of wood construction. We worked with architects from perkins will and researchers from the university of cambridge to explore design strategies code and life safety.
Once a comprehensive new building code for mass timber is in place even an increase to 10 percent mass timber construction with the rest as status quo concrete and steel would create a carbon sink of 10 million tons of absorbed carbon per year. Read more at popular mechanics. Floors 4 and 5 of the building are home to summit design build s new headquarters. Structures construction permitted and constructed the first new hybrid timber building in 2006 and recently completed a timber framed field house for the chicago park district.
The 2018 ibc made major steps forward in the future of mass timber and the upcoming ibc 2021 will have even more. Heavy timber construction was used to build 1040 w fulton making it the first multi story mass timber building in chicago in 50 years. Leading the industry in tall mass timber. Chicago build is the leading construction design and real.
Fulton is a showplace for our company and an example of what is possible in the modern age of wood construction.