Mass Timber and the Houston RAD Center

The award-winning University of Houston RAD Center is the first mass timber building on the UH campus and a model for sustainable adaptive reuse. The project transformed a flood-prone, below-grade dining facility into a light-filled, two-story campus hub by reusing existing concrete columns and foundations and introducing an exposed mass timber structural system. The presentation highlights key structural and design considerations unique to mass timber and demonstrates how foundation reuse and material efficiency reduced cost, minimized embodied carbon, and elevated the structure as architecture.

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