At 284 feet, Ascent lives up to its name. The towering 25-story luxury apartment building is the world's tallest hybrid mass timber structure, with 19 stories and 273,000 square feet of mass timber providing 260 residential units to the Milwaukee market. The project received a U.S. Forest Service Wood Innovation Grant for its unprecedented use of timber in high-rise construction in the United States. Project research will be released to the public domain to aid in developing future tall timber buildings. Ascent represents that tall-timber is attainable in the United States – a vision that many people shelved throughout the timeline of this project.

Timberlab was brought on as the trade partner and was responsible for procuring and managing the delivery of the building's timber elements. The project yielded significant schedule savings through our detailed prefabrication and coordination expertise. Additionally, Timberlab facilitated the testing of glulam columns to receive a 3-hour fire-resistance rating - a test that had yet to be conducted anywhere in the world. The Ascent tower is a testament to our company's deep commitment to innovation and push for mainstream adoption of mass timber construction.