Ragged tan lines and “raincoats.” Exposure to the elements during construction forced workarounds for the team that built Milwaukee’s 284-ft-tall Ascent, declared the world’s tallest timber-and-concrete building on July 20.
Trucks, trains, ships and even more trucks. Long before the wood—shipped from Austria—hit the staging area for the 25-story residential tower, unforeseeable conditions snagged the schedule. This included a shortage of shipping containers and port havoc on the East Coast, after the container ship Ever Given ran aground and blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021.