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Portland, OR 97203 Portland, OR 92779 539964.010516 BT Tuesday, February 16, 2016 BUSINESS TRIBUNE 3 WOOD Wood frame commercial building is making a comeback regon scored big in the when needed, and block it out to latest design awards from prevent excess heat gain when it’s WoodWorks, an initiative not. The building is also equipped Oof the Wood Products with an earthquake detection sys- Council for innovative use of wood tem that will text tenants if it sens- in the design of commercial and es an impending tremor. multi-family buildings. It’s similar to a loft building or Three of the nine winning proj- warehouse that has been re- ects are in the Portland area, while claimed, but it has state of the art a fourth win- window systems, HVAC and insu- ning project BY JOHN M. lation says Kaiser. Unlike re- is in Bend. claimed spaces, architects on the When de- VINCENT Radiator created gaps, or plenums, veloper Ben between fl oors that carry most of Kaiser built the Radiator building the conduits and plumbing that as part of the One North develop- would otherwise clutter the wood- ment at N. Vancouver and Fre- beamed ceilings. There are some mont it was, at 65 feet, the tallest pipes, but most are for the build- Portland wood frame building to ing’s fi re sprinkler system. be built in years. Now wood frame Kaiser sees the interior as being commercial buildings are sprout- the new Class A offi ce space. “Peo- ing up across town. ple are moving to Oregon, but not “I think to its fair to say that this to be in a fl uorescently lit offi ce was a pioneering project in its space,” he says of the drop ceiling, height and use of timber, and I drywalled offi ce space common to think it has proven to others that most commercial projects. the sustainable attributes and car- “We’ve proven out that this is bon sequestration attributes are what people want, and will pay a worth it,” says developer Ben Kai- lease payment that will support ser of PATH. it,” says Kaiser. During the manufacturing of The project cost $8.5 million, and concrete and steel, large amounts was completed in 2015, according COVER: Like a reclaimed of carbon are created. Wood, on to the Wood Products Council. De- warehouse or loft, the the other hand, holds (or seques- velopers earned a $350,000 grant interiors of the Radiator ters) carbon. “Only if it burned from Metro for the Transit Orient- feature natural wood ceilings would it be released back into the ed Development and another and beams, but without the atmosphere,” says Kaiser. $420,000 for a central courtyard mechanical structures “We almost stumbled into the with was turned over as a public cluttering the space. idea of timber framing, as a result park under Metro’s Nature in Architects design a plenum, of an eco-summit in Seattle,” Kai- Neighborhoods grant program. or space between fl oors, to ser says. “Now there are 65-foot Building the 36,000 sq. ft. Radia- route most of the conduit buildings all around Portland. tor was high risk in quite a num- and plumbing. Even in the last year and a half.” ber of ways. No commercial offi ce RIGHT: Ben Kaiser’s fi rm Engineering of the Radiator was space had been built in the corri- both developed and designed done by Munzing Structural Engi- dor “in a long, long time,” says the Radiator. He feels that neering. Kaiser, and developers wanted to sustainably and locally The fi ve-story building doesn’t build it without the standard num- produced engineered wood look like a wood frame building ber of parking places for the size products are absolutely the from the outside, but step in and of the project. answer to carbon-creating you’ll be welcomed with high ceil- “That’s risky because institu- concrete and steel ings, warm woods and huge win- tional lenders do not like that,” he dows. It includes an innovative says. construction. shutter system that constantly ad- PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: justs to allow light and heat in CONTINUED / Page 4 JOHN M. VINCENT 4 BUSINESS TRIBUNE Tuesday, February 16, 2016 ■ From page 3 Kaiser and his team worked out an agreement with a church just north of the project to use their parking lot during the week, when services are not going on. The Radiator is part of a larger project, with two other buildings designed by Holst Architects. All together, the One North development includes 110,000 square feet of offi ce and retail space. With decades of debate about the timber industry’s impact on the environment, it’s easy to question how a large wood structure could be seen as sustainable. Kaiser sees it from a different perspective, noting that the high- ly engineered wood used in the project comes from 20-year wood products. “They’re not even in the realm of old growth,” he says. “The young forests consume a tremen- dous amount of carbon.” “If we build, I think engineered product wood sustainably and locally harvested is absolutely the answer. It’s job creation, it’s carbon sequestration and it’s all about locally sourced products,” emphatically states Kaiser. The next step in wood construction will be the use of cross- laminated engineered products. COURTESY: JOSH PARTEE PHOTOGRAPHY Alternating the direction in Fire stations need to comply with strict earthquake-resistance requirements, and Gresham’s Fire Station 76 does so by using 27-foot Glulam wood arches in its which the wood layers are lami- apparatus bay. It won the WoodWorks award for Institutional Wood Design. nated creates a structure that ri- vals steel in its load bearing attributes. Kaiser foresees a day in space above. Heavy timbers form neers, Gresham’s new Fire Sta- the not so distant future where the frame of the building and 80 tion 76 near Dodge Park doesn’t The Central walls and other modules will be percent of the wood in the build- look anything like a fi re station Eastside built in a factory, and assembled ing is exposed. The wood frame you’ve seen before. The appara- Industrial Area’s on site like giant Ikea furniture. rests on a concrete base that tus bay (where the trucks are Framework won holds the project’s retail compo- parked) features 27-foot glulam Framework the WoodWorks nents. arches and roof framing designed 2016 award for The Central Eastside Industrial The architect on the 24,447 to resist earthquakes. commercial District’s Framework building de- square foot project was Works Siding for the fi rehouse is re- wood design. It’s sign team likens the structure to Partnership Architecture, and it claimed douglas fi r, which has a fi ve-story a ship in a bottle, with its wood was completed in 2015 at a cost of been charred using an ancient timber-frame structure visible inside a glass fa- $2.95 million. Engineering the Japanese technique, creating a building wrapped cade.

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