Oregon State University Peavy Hall

The College of Forestry at the Oregon State University sought an inspiring environment for their forestry students. The new Peavy Hall in the Forest Sciences Complex allows students, faculty and staff to see and explore first hand the potential of wood. Constructed of cross laminated timber and enveloped in glass and accoya treated wood, the building offers innovative classrooms, laboratories, meeting spaces and offices. The hall is part of three interconnected buildings. Areas of the existing Richardson Hall support the new Peavy Hall (80,000 sf.) and the new Advanced Wood Products Center for AWP (20,000 sf.). Landscaped beyond is an arboretum where students can experience a living classroom.

StructureCraft was brought onto the team as the timber subcontractor and provided specialty timber engineering services, including design of the timber-concrete composite floor systems and the CLT shearwall splices, working with Equilibrium Consulting.

Our engineers were able to pull from some of the ground-breaking research conducted on the Framework project, bringing in our CLT rocking wall splice details which had been full-scale tested at OSU previously and using them on campus for the first time in a real-world application.

The first post-tensioned CLT core walls in North America being installed on this world-class timber structure.