{"id":31061,"date":"2025-06-25T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worlds-tallest-mass-timber-building-breaks-ground-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:05:55","slug":"worlds-tallest-mass-timber-building-breaks-ground-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/worlds-tallest-mass-timber-building-breaks-ground-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s tallest mass timber building breaks ground in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech\">\n    <button class=\"text-to-speech__button button\"><\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/static\/images\/audio_icon.svg?482016190122\" alt=\"-\"><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">3 min<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls\">\n        <audio controls=\"\" class=\"js-text-to-speech\" preload=\"none\"><source src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/dmgi9movl\/video\/upload\/q_1\/v1750874870\/news\/text_to_speech\/world-tallest-mass-timber-milwaukee_seh6vu.wav\" type=\"audio\/mp3\"><\/source><\/audio><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-to-speech__controls__text\">\n            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\"><span><span><span><span><span>Dive Brief:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>A construction team led by Fond du Lac, Wisconsin-based general contractor C.D. Smith recently <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdsmith.com\/blog\/neutral-edison-breaks-ground-on-tallest-mass-timber-building-in-usa\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>broke ground on Neutral Edison<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>, a 31-story tower in Milwaukee, according to C.D. Smith. Once complete,\u00a0it will be the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neutral.us\/project\/the-edison\" target=\"_blank\">tallest mass timber building in the world<\/a>, according to the project page from its developer,\u00a0Madison, Wisconsin-based Neutral.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Neutral Edison will contain 350 studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, along with approximately 7,200 square feet of retail space, according to the contractor.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>The building was designed by New York City-based design firm Thornton Tomasetti, which worked with C.D. Smith <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntontomasetti.com\/project\/ascent\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>on Ascent<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span>, a 25-story building located in Madison that was the tallest mass timber building in the world upon its completion in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\"><span><span><span><span><span>Dive Insight:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Neutral Edison <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdsmith.com\/blog\/the-edison-milwaukee-mass-timber-construction-financing\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>secured $133.3 million in construction financing<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> in January, per C.D. Smith. With construction underway, the building is expected to reach its full height in 2026 and welcome its first residents in 2027, according to the contractor.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>It will feature a full-floor membership club with a fitness center, health clinic, spa, pool and sauna. The first floor will feature a membership workspace, caf\u00e9 and organic grocery store and the top floor lounge will offer a community garden and entertainment deck.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The building is designed with a hybrid structural system, said Daniel Glaessl, partner and chief product officer at Neutral, in an email. Since a large portion of the mass timber superstructure is exposed, it required alternate code compliance \u2014 namely a fire rating that is equivalent to a construction type I-A performance, which Glaessl said it successfully tested.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Neutral also needed permits from five different agencies for the water source heat pumps that cool the entire building, Glaessl said. Those pumps utilize the thermal energy of up to 2 million gallons of river water per day, and had only been applied once before in Wisconsin, in an industrial setting, according to Glaessl.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking comes as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supplychaindive.com\/news\/trump-tariffs-status-canada-mexico-china-eu\/743577\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a> cause a significant amount of uncertainty in the industry, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/tariff-uncertainty-public-builders\/748153\/\" target=\"_blank\">particularly among builders<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/tariffs-prices-multifamily-construction-apartment-development\/749908\/\" target=\"_blank\">apartment developers<\/a>. Specifically, new taxes on foreign steel and aluminum will <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/new-steel-aluminum-tariffs-push-construction-costs-higher\/749931\/\" target=\"_blank\">raise prices for contractors<\/a>, experts told viewers at a June 3 webinar hosted by Swedish builder Skanska.<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nevertheless, <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/mass-timber-steel-tariffs-timberlab\/750418\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>those tariffs provide an opportunity<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><span><span><span><span><span><span> for developers and builders to look to mass timber, said Chris Evans, president of Timberlab, a mass timber firm owned by Concord, California-based Swinerton.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cIf steel prices go up and tariffs caused that throughout the whole system, then what that will really do is help make mass timber cost-neutral or better in more markets across the U.S.,\u201d Evans said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.constructiondive.com\/news\/world-tallest-mass-timber-milwaukee\/751626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. 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