The Pacific Northwest

Fostering Global Leadership in Mass Timber

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Our Purpose

Support global competitiveness of our region’s mass timber sector.
Improve building quality and performance.
Provide high-skill high wage jobs across forestry, manufacturing, and construction.
Increase housing production and affordability.
Featured Video

Oregon Mass Timber: Ready for Primetime

Mass timber didn’t arrive overnight — it earned its place. Over the past decade, Oregon’s mass timber ecosystem has evolved into a highly capable, deeply collaborative community. This documentary looks at two iconic university projects — at PSU and OSU — that show what’s possible today.

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Projects

The PNW Mass Timber Tech Hub, led by Oregon State University, is a transformative, four-state initiative (OR, WA, ID, MT) designed to scale the U.S. mass timber industry into a globally competitive sector.
Proposed Projects

Mass timber—engineered wood with the strength of steel and concrete—offers faster, more sustainable construction and is growing at 37% annually. Yet, it remains under 1% of U.S. construction. The MTTH strategy addresses this gap through three synergistic components: Grow, Innovate, and Train.

Learn about our proposed projects

Current Projects

Current initiatives span capital access, governance, policy engagement, and market analysis. Our consultant partners are bringing energy, expertise, and collaboration to the table. Here’s a look at what each is leading and how it will shape the Tech Hub’s future.

Learn about our current projects

Join the PNW Mass Timber Tech Hub

The PNW Tech Hub is expanding and we'd love your participation.

We are the country's only Tech Hub dedicated to growing the mass timber industry. Our Hub now includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Join us in scaling mass timber by becoming a member of the Tech Hub today. It's free and easy.

Membership is open to organizations, agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofit partners in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana across the full forest products and mass timber value chain — from forest management, harvest, and milling to design, manufacturing, and construction. This includes those providing products, services, innovation, or infrastructure that strengthen the regional mass timber and wood products ecosystem. Members share a commitment to working collaboratively to expand sustainable wood use, strengthen the regional mass timber industry, and position it for global competitiveness.

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Key Goals

01
Create a nexus for communication and collective action
Serve as a conduit to convene and connect firms from across the region.
02
Improve forestry efficiency, training, and safety
Build an open-source digital infrastructure platform to modernize forest business
practices.
03
Improve training options and promote careers to a new generation of
diverse workers
Expand workforce training programs to attract, develop, and retain a skilled forestry, manufacturing and construction workforce.
04
Streamline access to innovation support services
Leverage the R&D and testing expertise and facilities that our university labs can provide to accelerate new product development.
05
Connect firms with investors and capital
Bring new sources of investment capital to manufacturers and real estate projects.
06
Streamline pathways to new product certification
Address industry barriers to product certification to create efficiency.
07
Support expansion of prefabricated housing
Document lessons learned through prototyping, testing, and implementing on-the-ground housing pilots to support the use of prefabricated housing.
08
Generate robust data to build investor confidence
Organize open-source technical data on advanced materials, annual market scans, and financial performance data.
09
Align with state and federal policies and philanthropy
Identify policy and regulatory barriers and opportunities and advocate for change.
10
Expand fiber supply
Expand provision of small-diameter fiber from national forests while supporting tribal partners and increasing supply chain transparency.

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