Engineering Essentials: Mass Timber Construction

Here's How

At Thornton Tomasetti, we’re advancing the use of mass timber on several fronts. Evaluating its benefits for fighting climate change. Proving its versatility. Analyzing its safety. Designing record-breaking structures. Developing technological tools to speed its assessment and design.

Watch Paul Becker – senior principal, director of our Portland, Maine, office and member of the Maine Mass Timber Advisory Committee – interview leaders in Thornton Tomasetti’s mass timber initiatives about how this renewable material can become a material of choice in structures of every kind.