Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 12

43 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 12 T IMBERLAB INC . company. Despite supply chain issues that have disrupted almost every industry across the globe, Timberlab managed to embark on two of its biggest projects over the past year. These projects include the Portland International Airport and the Ascent project in Milwaukee, WI. Once Ascent is finished, it will be the tallest mass timber building in all of North America. Ascent comes in at 19 storeys tall, sitting atop a six-storey concrete podium. “We’ve definitely been challenged with the supply chain in the last couple of years,” says Spiritos. “There were container shortages and the lumber price escalation to record levels in 2020, and that threw everyone for a loop on reliability and cost certainty. But we are still seeing a huge interest in mass timber and, actually, in the past few months we’ve been overwhelmed with interest in mass timber from all across the country. Not even just big cities, but small cities, too. So it doesn’t seem that