The University of Washington Tacoma has filed permits to begin construction on Milgard Hall, a $43 million academic building that will be constructed largely of cross-laminated timber (CLT). Work on the three-story, 55,000-square-foot project will begin in September and is expected to be complete by the fall of 2022. The building will have classrooms, offices, labs and collaborative spaces. The structure will include glulam columns and beams as well as CLT floor decks with concrete topping slabs. Andersen Construction is the general contractor, according to public records. New York City-based Architecture Research Office is the architect. Milgard Hall “both responds to the need for STEM programming in the South Sound while its mass timber construction also addresses ambitious sustainability goals,” the architecture firm says.