Project Grant 21DG11062765735

This federal Project Grant award of $300,000, provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674), is focused on determining seismic performance factors for mass timber brace frames. The project, to be conducted by Structurecraft Builders USA Inc. in Washington, will utilize the Federal Emergency Management Agency P695 methodology to evaluate the seismic performance of this emerging construction technology. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $550,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) is supporting Kpff, Inc. to provide technical assistance in developing design parameters for mass timber rocking walls. The project aims to advance wood product development and promote the use of innovative wood materials in construction. Kpff, Inc., a multi-discipline engineering firm, is serving as the prime grantee to analyze mass...

Waechter Architecture Inc. was awarded a $248,168 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to develop a regional model for all-wood building under the Wood Utilization Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.674). The two-year award, issued on September 23, 2022 and set to be completed by August 1, 2024, will directly support the provision of technical assistance regarding new and emerging wood utilization technologies and products to effectively manage forests...

The federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674), provides $660,000.00 to Timberlab Inc. to support the "DESIGN FOR MASS TIMBER MANUFACTURING PHASE 1" project. This award, with a completion date of December 31, 2025, aims to advance Timberlab's capabilities in mass timber manufacturing and related wood product innovations. The funding will enable Timberlab to design new...

Oregon State University was awarded a $559,396 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) for their "Innovative Technology for Mass Timber and Hybrid Modular Buildings" project. The award, made on September 15, 2021, will support research through August 31, 2026 developing new technologies for mass timber and prefabricated modular construction. The NSF Engineering program aims to improve lives and economic strength through engineering...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program provides $453,120 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to develop and implement a standardized tiered fire shelter system for Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) communities. The research aims to create a tiered system of fire shelters with integrated evacuation and shelter-in-place strategies, incorporating hazard...

This $599,974 National Science Foundation project grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund the creation of a physics-based computational model for predicting structural ignition risks from wildfires at the University of Michigan from January 2023 through December 2025. The model will simulate ignition from firebrands on structures using a probabilistic multiphase Eulerian approach for transport and the discrete element method for firebrand fracture and mass loss. It will be...

The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI Arc) received a $161,291 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region to accelerate application of customized cross laminated timber panels. The grant was awarded on July 14, 2021 under the Wood Utilization Assistance federal grant program (CFDA #10.674), with a completion date of September 1, 2023. The Wood Utilization Assistance program aims to provide technical assistance regarding...

The University of California, Davis will use a $120,000 cooperative agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop wildland urban interface (WUI) fire simulation models and evacuation strategies. The research will leverage data from California's 2018 Camp Fire to simulate fire hardening and evacuation scenarios for different community archetypes through agent-based modeling, fire dynamics modeling, and evacuation modeling within a semantic framework. This is...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) to Equilibrium Consulting USA Inc. based in Georgia. The grant supports the "Advancement of Mass Timber Braced Frames for Codified Design" project, with a performance period from August 2024 to August 2029. The project aims to develop and promote the use of mass timber braced frames in construction, which can reduce hazardous forest fuels,...