One of the world’s largest real estate developers, Hines Global Real Estate, is looking to mass timber-based green buildings” to fuel the next generation of commercial office and build-to-rent residential construction projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is according to Fast Company<\/a>, which today included the developer in its list of the world’s most innovative companies (as well as ZGF – for the Portland International Airport<\/a> and NBBJ – the developer of futuristic modified timber hybrid systems<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, the firm expanded its series of T3 mass timber projects, which started with a 2016 project in Minneapolis, the first new multistory wood office in the U.S. in more than a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, Hines has 26 projects built or in the pipeline, including T3 RiNo, which is planned to be one of Denver\u2019s most sustainable buildings, and T3 Collingwood, which last year became Australia’s first all-timber high rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Featured at last year’s Timber Offsite Construction Conference (now rebranded as Timber Construct), Andrew Dunn, conference organiser, said the Hines development, the first in Australia, is the start of a timber-led revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n