Business View Magazine | September 2020

37 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 ADVANCING MASS TIMBER ENGINEERING IN THE PNW. SWINERTON MASS T IMBER plumbing, which leads to shorter construction times and enhanced efficiency onsite. With that type of definition, we felt it was really pertinent to open a fabrication facility that allows us to process large Glulam efficiently.” Long-term, Evans says that his objective is to continue the company’s leadership role in the mass timber industry. “Our mission is simple,” he declares. “We are out to accelerate the mainstream adoption of mass timber construction in the U.S. commercial construction market. To do that, we have to be innovative; we have to find solutions that cut down on labor costs, manufacturing costs, and supply costs, so we can get to that point where in all markets, it’s a cost-competitive structural system that any building owner should consider. That’s our goal. Everything that we’re doing is to support, promote, and grow mass timber in commercial construction.”