Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 12

38 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 of the name, we operate quite similarly to how we did when we were under that Swinerton Mass Timber name, but we do now offer an expanded scope of services,” says Timberlab’s Preconstruction Manager Erica Spiritos. “We do in-house engineering now, we have licensed structural engineers that do design for timber structures, and then also fabrication of glulam beams in our fabrication facility, which we call ‘The Lab’ in Portland.” Timberlab also works with a number of laminators and glulam (glue-laminated timber) manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest who make high-quality glulam products, but who don’t have the 3D modeling capabilities or CNC machines that Timberlab utilizes. Spiritos notes, “They can’t turn their product into a custom building component, which is needed for a mass timber building, so we work with companies like Calvert Glulam out of Vancouver, Washington, and Zip-O-Laminators out of Eugene, Oregon. It’s been really great.” The company’s mission is a bold and noble one: To accelerate the mainstream adoption of mass timber in the U.S. commercial construction market for the benefit of the planet and its people. “I think we’ve been heading in this direction since the beginning,” Spiritos says. “It’s always been our intention to accelerate the adoption of mass timber through taking parts of the supply chain where we perceived there to be pinch points or low availability of AT A GLANCE TIMBERLAB INC. WHAT: A Swinerton Company with a focus on mass timber construction WHERE: Headquartered in Portland, Oregon WEBSITE: www.timberlab.com