Santiam Canyon School District

Mill City, OR

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.

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Version History
  • Project uploaded by WoodWorks on 07-21-2021
  • Project last updated by WoodWorks on 08-15-2024
Project Details
  • Number Of Stories

    1

  • Bldg system

    Mass Timber

  • Sq. Meters

    5,284

  • Construction Type:

    V-B

  • Building Type:

    Educational

  • Material Types:

    Mass Timber
    Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)

Project Team
  • Freres Engineered Wood
    Freres Engineered Wood CLT
  • HMK Company Project Engineer
  • Heston Altenbach Carpentry Subcontractor – Constructed the wood portion of the Gym
  • Manal Brawn General Contractor
  • Soderstrom Architects Principal Architect
  • ZCS Engineering Engineer
  • Zack Stokes Engineer
Version History
  • Project uploaded by WoodWorks on 07-21-2021
  • Project last updated by WoodWorks on 08-15-2024
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