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Utah’s first large-scale mass-timber building signals new trend in sustainable construction

Climate concerns about steel and concrete are driving builders back to lumber.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Baltic Pointe office building in Draper on March 22, 2023. The building is Utah's first mass-timber project, but across the United States more than 1,600 such buildings have been completed, are under construction or are proposed to be built.