Framework R&D

Project Type: Affordable Housing
Mission
Office
Retail
Role: Fee Developer
Partners: USDA
SBLC
SLB
Home Forward
TomKat Foundation

Framework was intended to be the nation’s first wood high-rise building. Framework is the collaboration of Beneficial State Bank, a triple-bottom like community bank, TomKat Foundation, a mission-driven equity investor, and Home Forward, the public housing authority for Multnomah County to re-envision the Pearl District property. The project’s Research & Development (R&D) phase was supported by a $1.5M award from the U.S. Tall Wood Building Prize Competition, sponsored by the USDA Softwood Lumber Board and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council. The building showcases the progressive innovation of mass timber construction, specifically Cross Laminated Timber (CLT). Framework seeks to innovate a model for sustainable urban ecology while promoting social justice, resilient building practices, and economic opportunities for advancement of these objectives at a national scale. Framework’s R&D resulted in the first permitted high-rise made from wood in the United States and was instrumental in changes to the International Building Code to allow for tall wood buildings by right throughout the entire United States. 

Values: Design Excellence, Development Innovation, Environmental Stewardship, and Equitable Outcomes.

Completed by Anyeley as a partner of project^