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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