Ascent MKE — Ascent Tower Milwaukee
Milwaukee, United States, North America
Completed · Residential · Tall Timber Residential Tower · Continental · 2022
A 25-storey mass timber residential tower that became the world's tallest timber building at completion in 2022. It uses a concrete-encased glulam frame with CLT floor plates and demonstrated that timber high-rise construction is viable under US building codes through extensive fire and structural testing.
Innovation highlights
- 25 storeys of concrete-encased glulam — tallest timber building at time of completion
- first US residential high-rise approved under IBC 2021 tall wood provisions
- glulam columns and beams encased in thin concrete for fire resistance
- demonstrated regulatory pathway for tall timber in the US market
- Client / Developer
- New Land Enterprises / Wiechmann Enterprises
- Architect
- Korb + Associates Architects
- Engineer
- GRAEF / Thornton Tomasetti
- Type
- Tall Timber Residential Tower
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