Santiam Canyon School District
Mill City, OR-
Bldg system
Mass Timber
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No. Of Stories
1
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Sq. footage
56,880
When the Santiam School District in rural Oregon needed a new gym, they decided to use a mass timber product manufactured by a local company over a barebones, prefabricated metal building. The resulting wood structure has become a point of civic pride for members of the community, who appreciate that it was created by their friends and neighbors using wood from nearby forests. The veneer-based cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels, known as mass ply panels (MPP), met both the structural and aesthetic needs of the project. A similar product was also used to form the columns and 72-foot beams spanning the space. Speed of construction was a big benefit of choosing mass timber; the primary gym structure went up in just 15 days with two crane operators and six carpenters. The new gym gives hundreds of junior and senior high school students much-needed space for PE class and sports practices.
See the WoodWorks technical case study on the Santiam Gym.
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Construction Cost:
$24M
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Construction Type:
Unknown
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Building Type:
Educational
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Material Types:
Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)
Companies Involved:
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Soderstrom Architects
Principal Architect
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HMK Company
Project Engineer
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ZCS Engineering
Engineer
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Freres Engineered Wood
CLT
Individuals Involved:
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Zack Stokes
Engineer
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Manal Brawn
General Contractor
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Heston Altenbach
Carpentry Subcontractor – Constructed the wood portion of the Gym