Mass Timber: Better Buildings, Resilient Forests, Brighter Future
We're creating equitable economic development and family-wage rural and urban jobs from sustainable wood products that are grown and manufactured in Oregon.
The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded Oregon Mass Timber Coalition a $41.4 million Build Back Better grant to advance Oregon’s sustainable mass timber sector. This investment will drive jobs, sustainable forestry, and mass timber housing.
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From Forest to Future: Mass Timber Careers
Mass timber is creating meaningful career opportunities across Oregon and beyond.
From Forest to Future highlights the diverse opportunities in design, fabrication, manufacturing, carpentry, and more - and how the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition (OMTC) is helping connect people to training, education, and career pathways in this growing industry.
About the Coalition
The Coalition is a partnership between Oregon’s leading research universities and government agencies.
Innovation Begins Here
Our projects are growing Oregon's mass timber market—from forests to finished buildings. The Coalition supports resilient forest management, advances mass timber design and manufacturing, and expands workforce training and job opportunities. Explore how these projects are building momentum across the state.
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Upcoming Events
Online
Join the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition for an engaging webinar focused on expanding pathways into one of Oregon's fastest growing industries.
The Mass Timber Workforce Opportunities Webinar will introduce new real-world education, training, and career resources available in mass timber across Oregon. Designed for stakeholders, career coaches, CTE counselors, and others who support workforce development, this session will help you better understand how to connect Oregonians to meaningful jobs in the mass timber sector.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon, USA
The International Mass Timber Conference is the largest gathering of mass timber experts in the world, focusing on the entire industry supply chain. This is our 10th annual event in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Explore cross-laminated timber (CLT), nail-laminated timber, glulam, mass plywood panels, dowel-laminated timber, and laminated veneer lumber; and the opportunities and obstacles in global design, construction, development, manufacturing, and more.
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, OR
Join us for a collaborative lunch meeting at the International Mass Timber Conference hosted by the PNW Mass Timber Tech Hub.
This gathering is an opportunity for conference attendees and regional partners to connect, share ideas, and explore current and future projects shaping the Tech Hub’s growth across the Pacific Northwest.
Grab your lunch to go from the conference and bring it to a table of peers focused on collaboration, innovation, and expanding opportunities in mass timber.
We encourage you to join the conversation and help us strengthen the region’s mass timber ecosystem.
Featured News
Estacada celebrated the ribbon-cutting for a massive new building in an industrial park that will bring specialized timber fabrication to town. Sauter Timber invited community leaders and business owners to a celebratory grand opening of its new production plant, 3110 N.W. Campus Drive, in the Estacada Industrial Campus off Highway 211.
Timberlab Inc. and Swinerton Incorporated, together with Swinerton Builders, Lindgren Development, Lever Architecture, and other project partners, have topped out a 192,000-square-foot facility that will be one of the largest cross-laminated timber manufacturing sites in the United States.
