The A.A. "Red" Emmerson Advanced Wood Products Laboratory houses sophisticated manufacturing systems to take innovative mass timber research to the next level.
Home to the TallWood Design Institute, the mass plywood building serves as a model for education and research for the state’s growing expertise in engineered wood products and mass timber construction. High-tech equipment and robotics - including a Biesse Uniteam 5-axis CNC timber processing center, a Minda CLT press and a Kuka robot milling cell - assist in the lab's main function of development and testing new structural wood products and mass timber design.
