The new two-story, 27,090 square foot office building serves as Harder Mechanical’s headquarters. The structure features cross-laminated timber panels bearing on glulam beams and columns. CLT panels were rotated 90-degrees along the perimeter to support the weight of a brick façade, eliminating over 300 beams originally designed. The new office building also features exposed steel brace frames for the lateral system and a uniquely designed floor assembly to achieve acoustic separation between floors.

When we were hired onto the team, the design included Glulam framing with tongue-and-groove decking. We proposed substituting the decking with CLT panels for a prefabricated approach, reducing the original schedule by two months.

*This project was delivered by Swinerton Mass Timber, prior to the establishment of Timberlab.