PDX RefreshBuilt with Norwest culture in every beam.

This summer, the Port of Portland unveiled its new main terminal at the Portland airport, featuring a stunning 9-acre mass timber roof made from 2.6 million board feet of locally sourced wood. Using mass timber for sustainable buildings was the vision of late dean of OSU’s College of Forestry, Thomas Maness. He helped create the TallWood Design Institute, a collaboration between Oregon State and the University of Oregon, which unites faculty across the disciplines of architecture, structural engineering and wood science to advance mass timber and other wood product building solutions. OSU and the Port of Portland are founding members of the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition, a partnership between Oregon’s leading research universities and government agencies.