The Mass Timber Finance and Consumer platform (MTFC) exists to advance understanding of the consumer preferences, underwriting and entrepreneurial forces shaping the mass timber ecosystem.
Our identity is educational and catalytic in nature, not advocacy. We exist to foster and curate insights helpful to students, researchers, universities, business schools, entrepreneurship centers, and professionals working across investment, real estate, marketing, manufacturing, design, engineering, forestry, and government.
Initial characterization of the mass timber's industry structure and capital flows.
Status: Completed
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Financial and consumer insights from market-rate, market-bound developments for developers and investors.
Status: V.1 completed, V.2 (underway)
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Consumer preferences evaluation of households occupying mass timber rental assets to detect if, and how, mass timber creates value.
Status: Underway
"Pricing" the value created from building resilience enabled by CLT rocking wall systems; establishing the underwriting mechanism for proforma adjusts.
Status: Phase 1 underway,
Phase 2, seeking funding.
How mass timber shows up across residential and commercial markets, and in the public, cultural, and civic spaces beyond them.
MTFC aims for global perspectives - respecting the history and diversity of cultures across academics and practitioners that contribute to our world's use and understanding of wood in and amid our built-environments. Definition, analysis and actions pertaining to the economics of products and industies will vary across cultures and systems - all infomring market demand across mass timber's occupant, investor and society end users.
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United States
A 25-story mixed-use tower in Milwaukee, Ascent is the world's tallest mass timber building, demonstrating engineered wood's viability for high-rise residential and hospitality development.
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Norway
At 18 stories, Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal manifests a modern benchmark for mass timber high-rise occupant experiences combining apartments, a hotel, and offices in glulam and CLT construction.
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Netherlands
Amsterdam's Haut is a 21-story timber-hybrid residential tower, one of the tallest timber apartment buildings in the Netherlands, pairing CLT with a concrete core for structural performance.
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Australia
Sydney's International House and neighboring Daramu House were among Australia's first commercial mass timber office buildings, proving engineered wood's viability in a market long dominated by steel and concrete.
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Sweden
Skellefteå's Sara Kulturhus Centre combines a hotel, theatre, library, and gallery in one of the tallest timber buildings in the world, showing engineered wood's potential for civic and cultural architecture.
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Japan
Kengo Kuma's Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum connects community using cantilevered timber construction and manifests local, traditional identity and culture in a rural town's public space.
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South Korea
The Haedong Advanced Engineering Building at Seoul National University is one of Korea's first large-scale mass timber academic buildings, demonstrating engineered wood's use in institutional construction.
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Canada
Built for the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Richmond Olympic Oval's undulating wood ceiling uses beetle-killed pine, showcasing mass timber's structural and sustainable design potential for large public sporting venues.
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Lewis & Clark College
University of British Columbia
Colorado School of Mines
University of Montana
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