In this age of modern building materials, could it be the best stuff is still made out of trees? Utah is getting its first taste of large-scale, mass-timber building with an office structure under construction in Draper, and it could be the first of many in the state. The five-story Baltic Pointe building overlooking I-15 will be the new home of Pelion Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. …The revival in wood construction is driven by climate change. …Hart also said the building is a little more expensive than a comparable steel and concrete structure would be. That is partly due to the specific requirements of this project, and partly because there is a learning curve. “We did it because we want to get better at it.” Gardner received a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service, which wants to encourage more mass-timber buildings.