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Collaboration is the most critical ingredient for innovation. To design, develop, and fabricate components that are novel or unique requires a precision that is only possible with a cross-disciplinary team. For Albina Yard, LEVER worked collaboratively with the project’s design-build team including the contractor, structural engineer, and fabricator to create the building’s mass timber connections. The glulam wood columns and beams were milled at CutMyTimber in Portland, Oregon, using a Hundegger K2 CNC joinery machine. The use of CAD/CAM software and CNC technology allowed the team to rapidly design and prototype precise connections, milled to an 1/8” tolerance. The team’s 3D model integrated the assembly’s concealed steel connections, which were also precision-fabricated at CutMyTimber.
Footage of a Hundegger K2 CNC machine custom milling the glulam beams used to construct Albina Yard.
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Albina Yard's glulam wood columns and beams were custom milled at CutMyTimber in Portland, Oregon.
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The precision modeling and fabrication included the project's custom steel connections.
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Custom column, beam, and floor assembly
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