2022 Mass Timber Accelerator Recipients
Getting to net zero with mass timber
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110 Canal St
CBT Architects and Quaker Lane Capital
Location: Downtown North
The project will focus on the lightweight structural benefits of mass timber for building additions—commercial office building addition and seven stories of new construction.
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401 Chelsea Street
ThoughtCraft Architects and Jeveli Holding
Location: East Boston
The project will research and assess the role of mass timber in shaping building form and related precedent study and site visits—residential-over-retail with 40 units of mixed income housing in a new construction six story building
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Eliot Church
Leers Weinzapfel Assoc. Architects and Eliot Congregational Church
Location: Roxbury
The publicly funded project will assess the benefits of mass timber for low-rise residential buildings—affordable housing building addition and four stories of new construction.
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Mary Ellen McCormack Building B
CBT Architects and WinnDevelopment
Location: South Boston
The project team will assess cost effective implementation of mass timber at Mary Ellen McCormack Redevelopment in a high-rise multi-family residential building—302 units of mixed-income affordable housing in a nine-story building.
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Project Q
DiMella Shaffer Architects, Project Q Communities and HYM Investments
Location: East Boston
The project team will assess the use of mass timber components, such as CLT in a high-rise eight story building to include 215 units of senior and assisted living/Memory Care.
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Shawmut TOD
Trinity Financial and ICON Architecture
Location: Dorchester
The project will research the feasibility of mass timber as alternative to stick built over podium structure and construction—four-story residential project with 81 units of mixed-income affordable housing.
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Suffolk Downs Building B16
Elkus Manfredi Architects and HYM Investment Group
Location: East Boston
This project will prepare a direct comparison of a mass timber versus steel structure building, including construction cost and time and embodied carbon benefits. This building has the potential to influence future buildings practices at a large site development project—eight-story residential market rate and affordable housing over ground floor retail in new construction.
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