Back in October, Build It With Wood attended the groundbreaking ceremony for University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Integrated Design Building and have been following construction ever since. This week, the Building and Construction Technology department at UMass Amherst posted pictures of the first shipment of wood arriving at the construction site.
(Aerial shot of the construction site of the future Integrated Design Building with two trailers of wood. Photo credit: Building and Construction Technology at UMass Amherst)
(The first shipment of wood arrives at UMass Amherst. Photo credit: Building and Construction Technology at UMass Amherst)
The 87,500 square feet structure will be made up of glue-laminated wood, cross-laminated timber (CLT) and wood-concrete composite.