Softwood Forest Products Buyer - November/December 2023

WHO’S WHO – MILLER Continued from page 41
Lumber Manufacturers Association, Federal Forest Resource Coalition, American
Wood Council, Softwood Lumber Board, US Lumber Coalition, Mississippi Forestry
Association, Louisiana Forestry Association and National Alliance of Forest
Owners.
For more information call 208-762-6623, email kody.miller@ifg.com or visit
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WHO’S WHO – ELMORE Continued from page 2
lattice panels, treated balusters, treated porch flooring, treated plywood, marine
and industrial treated products are also available.
Culpeper Wood Preservers has 17 strategically located plants, they have custom
loyalty programs, custom treated millwork, Culpeper box columns, primed palmetto
boards, fire retardant lumber and panels, as well as custom treating options.
Elmore has been in the forest products industry since 2000, where he had his
first job in a warehouse pulling hardwood lumber and plywood and as a forklift
operator loading and unloading trucks. In his over two decades in the industry, he
has also gained experience as inside and outside sales, inventory control, assistant
branch manager, branch manager in wholesale distribution and COO for a retail/
pro-dealer multi-location building material dealer. He credits his success through
the teamwork, relationships, with so many others that have played an instrumental
part in his experiences.
Elmore went to Kinston High School in Kinston, NC and earned a bachelor’s in
history from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He also completed the
Wharton School of Business Executive Education Program.
Elmore enjoys spending time with his family and friends and is always there to
lend them a helping hand. He enjoys watching football and other sports, reading,
golfing, fishing and grilling and all things history. He is interested in real estate,
housing and construction.
Culpeper Wood Preservers is a member of American Wood Preservers Association,
Southern Pine Inspection Bureau, Treated Wood Council, Northeastern Retail
Lumber Association and North American Wholesale Lumber Association.
For more information call 1-800-817-6215, email melmore@culpeperwood.
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WHO’S WHO – CHANEY Continued from page 2
Vertical integration between Boise Cascade’s manufacturing and distribution
businesses ensures access to quality products.
Chaney graduated from Washington State University, located in Pullman, WA,
in 2004 with a Master’s degree in Business, Management, Marketing and Related
Support Services. He has worked in his current position since 2006. “Growing up
in Southern Oregon, Boise Cascade was known as the best company you could
work for. I am very proud to be a member of the sales group here,” Chaney stated.
Chaney’s first position in the forest products industry was pulling lumber on a
green chain at WTD Industries during the summer while attending college. Other
past work has included working on the spreader crew at Timber Products and driving
a forklift for Georgia-Pacific.
Boise Cascade Co. is a member of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association.
In his spare time, Chaney enjoys remodeling houses.
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tural design and highlight its significant role in reducing the carbon footprint of
the built environment.
“The SLB was encouraged to see the architecture and construction community
continue to expand implementation of mass timber systems in effective ways
across a range of building types,” said SLB Chief Marketing Officer Ryan Flom.
“This year’s winning projects will not only provide much needed affordable housing
and gathering spaces for their communities, but they will also demonstrate viable
paths for other teams to build for well-being, commercial adoption, resilience,
and a minimal carbon footprint.”
The winning proposals were selected by a jury of AEC thought leaders not just
for their design excellence, but for their commitment to exploring new ways to
design and construct mass timber buildings in the U.S. at a higher scale through
replicable, cost-effective construction methods, as well as a commitment to
strengthen the mass timber supply chain by using domestically sourced wood
from sustainably managed forests. To further the impact of the program, award
recipients have pledged to share lessons learned during project phases, including
cost analyses, life cycle assessments, and other research results with the broader
design and construction community to encourage more widespread adoption of
mass timber as a structural material in similar projects across the country.
This year’s winning proposals included:
● CODA Detroit. Project Team: OOMBRA Architects, Brush Park Properties
/ IN Development Partners, JDH Engineering, Britt Peters, and AM Higley.
This mixed-use market-rate multifamily development in Detroit incorporates elements
of historic preservation and will explore new methods to address acoustical
challenges in mass timber multifamily.
● Up@310 Lofts. Project Team: Lignin Group, Tim Olson, Banwell Architects,
310 Marlboro St., and Entuitive. This overbuild in Keene, New Hampshire,
will add three stories and 57 apartments on top of a steel building, providing
further example of how mass timber can be used to expand existing structures.
● Project: Via/NWA IC Program. Project Team: Architects 226, Blue
Crane, Modus Studio, Tatum-Smith-Welcher, Aspect Structural Engineers, and
Arco Construction. This affordable workforce housing project in Northwest
Arkansas is designed to be construction with a standardized kit of parts of CLT
panels and bathroom modules, exploring further possibilities for mass timber
offsite construction.
● Project: The Village SF Wellness Center. Project Team: PYATOK
architecture + urban design, The Friendship House Association of American
Indians, DCI Engineers, and Cahill Contractors. This mixed use Native American
cultural center in San Francisco will include a cultural and Elders Hall, a youth
center, medical clinics, supportive housing, and a roof top garden and farm in a
six-story structure and is exploring how mass timber can both achieve sustainability
goals and support all uses.
● Project: Woolsey Gardens. Project Team: Solomon Cordwell Buenz,
Northern California Land Trust, Tipping Structural Engineers, Swinerton Builders,
and Timberlab. This midrise multifamily structure in Berkeley, California,
is looking to mass timber to help realize the first of what they hope will be many
net-zero permanent affordable housing development, providing an alternative to
the current affordable rental model.
Across the board, one of the major reasons why the winning projects incorporated
mass timber in the first place was sustainability and a desire to decarbonize
their projects and the communities they serve. And as the forest products community
well knows, the sustainability of using forest products like mass timber extends
beyond the boundaries of a single building. “One way to improve the health
and resilience of forests is by sustainably harvesting trees to manufacture wood
products like mass timber,” said John Crockett, USDA Forest Service Associate
Deputy Chief of State and Private Forestry. “As wildfires become more prevalent
across the United States, a stronger supply chain for lumber and mass timber improves
forest health and supports the construction of low carbon buildings—both
effective ways to mitigate the impacts of climate change.”
The 2023 competition was the second consecutive year of the program, which
in 2022 awarded $2 million in total funds to six recipients. Those projects are
starting to reach milestones, and as such, the learnings are beginning to be shared
more broadly. For example, the Evergreen Charter School in Hempstead, New
York, a 2022 winner that broke ground this year, was recently profiled in a Wood-
Works case study that chronicles the construction process so that others can take
their experience on board when considering mass timber for their own upcoming
projects. This education of architects, engineers, and developers about the benefits
of building with mass timber—and the variety of replicable, real-world construction
problems that it can help solve—through programs like the Mass Timber
Competition is critical to growing adoption of and demand for the material in
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formation,” which will be under the umbrella of the Global Alliance for Buildings
and Construction (GlobalABC). This initiative will seek to develop “a clear vision
of how to decarbonize the built environment and to drive a set of global actions
that address the key barriers along the built environment value chain, co-developed
and co-owned by all stakeholders, from business, finance as well as policy
makers.” The WBCSD intends to roll out some initial activities related to this
initiative at COP 28 in November.
Notably, closer to home, five organizations, including Architecture2030, Building
Transparency, the Carbon Leadership Forum, the International Living Future
Institute, and the U.S. Green Building Council, announced this month a new
initiative entitled Embodied Carbon Harmonization and Optimization (ECHO)
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