PORTLAND, MAINE – Mainebiz recently highlighted the growth of mass timber in the Northeast and featured the expertise of Consigli Project Executive Matt Tonello, one of “mass timber’s most passionate and experienced advocates.”

As an industry leader with more than 25 projects incorporating timber solutions, Consigli’s teams – advised by Tonello – work with partners locally and globally to advance mass timber as a sustainable building material option.

Alongside key project partners and clients, Tonello offered insight into how Consigli has helped support expanding the use and development of mass timber locally in Maine to support not just project needs, but also the regional economy and industry.

“[Tonello] co-founded the Maine Mass Timber Advisory Council, which advises the University of Maine’s Mass Timber Commercialization Center, and serves as a research and development partner with the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center in Orono to innovate timber lamination and procurement processes, and with a goal of seeing mass timber manufacturing come to the state for the first time.”

Highlighted as one of the driving forces behind the expansion of Maine’s use of mass timber, Mainebiz detailed Tonello’s collaborative work in support of overcoming one of the top challenges associated with mass timber production: bringing manufacturing capabilities to New England, and more locally, to Maine.

“Tonello is developing a prototype for a lamination process using wooden nails instead of glue, which he envisions could be produced in Maine, perhaps using existing capabilities.”

Read more about the benefits of mass timber, and how Consigli is helping build its future in Maine, here.