High-tech timber: Universities, timber industry craft new product

RIDDLE, Ore. - Cross-laminated timber is touted as a high-tech, sustainable product developed by the Oregon State University College of Forestry, put to work by the University of Oregon's architecture school - and manufactured by D.R. Johnson Lumber in Riddle.

CLTs are basically huge wooden panels glued together, made in a factory and set in place on site to build the next generation of buildings as opposed to using concrete or steel.

Think huge Legos.

The universities and manufacturer are coming together to try and revitalize the timber industry in rural Oregon.

OSU’s new Forestry Complex will also be built out of the material.

Source: KMTR

By: Angelica Carrillo