2025-06-11T20:13:58+00:00

Grand Barn

Portfolio project details

This grand “barn,” sitting almost directly on the Hayward Fault, encloses 12,000 square feet on two levels, with a 2,400-square-foot deck. Classified as a Seismic Design Category E structure, its roof is supported between the gables by four 60’ clear-span trusses on 20’ centers, allowing for an airy 60’ x 100’ space upstairs. A single line of posts supports the floor mid-span on the lower level. The barn is clad in brick and stone, and topped with a copper roof.

Our Part

  • Design assistance to ensure constructability, including a complete structural engineering package

  • Supplied over 150,000 board feet and 770 pieces of RFV KD Douglas Fir and Port Orford Cedar (12 × 36-30' doubled and keyed floor beams; 16x 32-32' doubled and keyed posts; 16x 16-36' rafters)
  • Designed and supplied an integrated and fully concealed structural steel package. (1.5" three-way tension rods in the trusses, wrapped 10" × 10" steel columns in porch posts)
  • Prefabricated all materials in the shop
  • On-site installation in six weeks

Project Partners

ARCHITECT: Arete Inc., Concord, CA

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Hinman Construction, Pleasanton, CA

ENGINEER: Fire Tower Engineered Timber, Delran, NJ

2022-04-22T11:07:26+00:00

WSU

Set at the main entrance to the WSU campus, the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center’s design is a unique building form that references and flows across the surrounding Palouse landscape. There are no straight lines or right angles in the 14,694-square foot LEED Gold certified building.

2022-04-22T11:06:07+00:00

Samish

A lakefront compound consisting of six structures: a 5,400-square-foot main house, two 900 square-foot detached garages, a 3,200 square-foot party barn, a 900 square-foot RV storage garage, and a 1,400 square-foot gate house.

2024-06-10T18:03:48+00:00

Skylodge

With two rotundas affording wondrous views of the encircling Wasatch Range, this sky-high, 5,500-square-foot event center at the nation’s largest ski resort is comprised of modules based on 100- square-foot triangles, resulting in a geometric layout.

2022-04-22T11:06:31+00:00

YMCA

The Kent, Washington YMCA is a 47,000-square-foot community and recreational center. This new building includes community meeting rooms, a demonstration kitchen for healthy eating programs and family support spaces for infants and children. Recreational resources include a lap pool, leisure pool, and spa/therapy pool, sports courts, an indoor track for social walking, and fitness studios. The building earned LEED Silver Certification.

2022-04-22T11:09:38+00:00

LAKESIDE

A 9,550-square-foot waterfront residence combining the beauty of live timber with the stability of engineered wood. The house features a central core of double-height spaces between inner and outer courtyards with flanking wings. Columns and beams were made from grain-matched, glued and laminated Douglas fir timbers.