Oregon Mass Timber Coalition’s Post

Today, Kenneth Anderton and I led a tour of Terminal 2, the future site of the Port of Portland's future Mass Timber Housing and Innovation Campus (MTHIC), as part of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference. Our discussions focused on a key theme of the conference: how we can learn from each other to accelerate the production of affordable housing through innovative products that deliver higher quality units more efficiently and cost-effectively. The Port's next major project, MTHIC, aims to do just that—transforming a historic marine terminal into a hub for housing manufacturing innovation, mass timber research, and collaboration across construction, manufacturing, climate-tech, and entrepreneurship, ultimately increasing housing production to address the housing shortage. We were joined by Mark Fretz from the University of Oregon who shared details on the future Acoustic Research and Energy Studies in Buildings laboratories that will be located at MTHIC, as well as their collaborative efforts with Oregon State University at the TallWood Design Institute on the Mass Plywood Panel (MPP) workforce housing prototype. These are just a few of the projects that the Port and its partners at the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition are working on, to expand the mass timber ecosystem and increase affordable housing options. We also visited MODSpdx to hear from Nathan Young and see their MPP modular prototype, showcasing an example of sustainable, factory-built housing solutions. Excited to help drive housing and mass timber innovation in the Pacific Northwest! #PortofPortland #CascadiaInnovationCorridor #MassTimber #HousingInnovation #Sustainability #MTHIC #FutureofHousing #Collaboration #HousingSolutions #PublicPrivatePartnership #AffordableHousing #WorkforceHousing #HousingCrisis #Cascadia