Portland International Airport’s new terminal is the largest sustainable mass timber project in the US. Here’s how it came together

By Kale Williams
KGW8 News
March 21, 2024
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: United States, US West

WHITE SWAN, Wash. —  As a member of Yakama Nation, Christy Fiander cultivated a reverence for the trees that grow in central Washington. Fiander is the resource manager for Yakama Forest Products who contributed wood to the new terminal being constructed at Portland International Airport, touted as the largest sustainable mass timber project in the country. The new terminal’s undulating, wood-lattice roof spans some nine acres. “It’s our one shot at really making a statement here,” Vince Granato, chief projects officer with the Port of Portland said. …Roughly 2.6 million feet of Douglas fir went into the roof of the terminal alone and much of that was grown outside of White Swan, Washington, a town of around 800 people on the Yakama Reservation, where the tribe operates its mill.The terminal will feature signage acknowledging the contributions of people like Fiander, which will come with its own sense of pride, she said. 

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