For the contractor who installed the mass timber frame of the super-sustainable PAE Living Building in Portland, the devastating 2020 wildfires in Oregon truly hit home.
Last Sept. 8, after a COVID-19-prompted “staycation” over Labor Day weekend, Russ Brotnov, CEO of Carpentry Plus Inc., received a distressing call from his wife. Wildfires were threatening their new house outside Estacada, about 30 miles southeast of Portland. They had to evacuate.