Overview of Lever Innovation Sandy Pine Utilizing Mass Timber In High Rise
For LEVER's Sandy Pine , a 12-story residential tower providing 276 apartment units in Portland, our design team developed an innovative point-supported mass timber structural system well-suited to a residential program—a system that leverages allowed height increases and brings the benefits of mass timber to market rate homes.
Already, it is a case study in successful mass timber high-rise design, and provides a precedent for mass timber utilization in multi-family residential design that may help to shift the narrative on what's possible with tall mass timber . When complete, Sandy Pine will be the tallest mass timber building in Portland.
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Sandy Pine is an early case study for mass timber high-rise housing and part of broader research collaborations that advance industry knowledge and innovation .
Sandy Pine is a 12 story mass timber high rise that, when complete, will be the tallest mass timber building in Portland. The form of the building responds to the diagonal intersection of Sandy Boulevard, which was built to follow an existing native american path that was the shortest connection between the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, and the intersection to Pine Street that connects to ...
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Sandy Pine is a 12-story mass timber high-rise that, when complete, will be the tallest mass timber building in Portland, Oregon. The building's form responds to the diagonal intersection of Sandy ...
Sandy Pine : A New Structural System for Timber High-Rises Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
LEVER Projects
Sandy Pine 12 story mass timber high rise that, when complete, will be the tallest mass timber building in Portland
The Sandy Pine project is located at 980 SE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR, consists of a 12-story, 125-feet tall high-rise building in type IV-B mass timber construction.
Mass Timber Case Study
Sandy Pine stands as a testament to this evolution - a towering high-rise of market-rate housing in Portland, Oregon's vibrant east side. This project represents many of our best strategies for integrating modular CLT mass timber systems within multifamily buildings, offering a perfect case study for the future of mass timber in housing ...
LEVER's design for a 12-story mass timber tower in Southeast Portland has received unanimous approval from the Portland Design Commission, and it is on track to become the tallest mass timber building in the city! Sandy Pine is a 276-unit apartment building that will provide mixed-use retail space on the ground floor and create a new bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly public street.