1 HSW Learning Unit
Speakers Provided by: Original Mass Timber Maine

Structural Round Timber (SRT) requires no adhesives, minimal processing, and can be fabricated using existing local timber supplies, making it an accessible and early-impact solution for mass timber markets and sustainable forest economies. SRT can compete in both strength and cost with steel and engineered wood products, with the added benefits of shorter supply chains, lower embodied energy, and higher carbon sequestration.

Original Mass Timber Maine, a grant-funded initiative administered by the Town of Ashland, ME, has joined forces with influential leaders in the A/E/C community to develop markets for Structural Round Timber (SRT) from regional forest owners to provide cost effective solutions that sequester more carbon, and require less processing than competitive products, while providing jobs for local forest economies. Join us to learn more!

Learning Objective 1:
Participants will be able to name structures, systems, and building types built using small-diameter round timber and identify where round timber can bring biophilic advantages as a structural or decorative material. Learning Objective 2:

Participants will be able to identify a benefit to forest ecosystems and regional economies from building with small- diameter round timber

Learning Objective 3:

Participants will be able to use the performance benefits a small-diameter round timber structural systems (including strength, carbon calculation, fire failure mode, and life cycle performance) in their projects to design hybrid systems with mixed materials.

Learning Objective 4:
Participants will be able to cite advantages of building with small-diameter round timber based on research at the USDA Forest Products Lab.