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Mass Timber Building Tour: South San Francisco Wellness Center

  • DateNov 12, 2026 · 3:00 pm GMT-0800
  • FormatIn Person
  • LocationSouth San Francisco, CA

About the event

This educational building tour offers an extensive look at the all-mass timber South San Francisco Wellness Center, highlighting how timber construction applies to healthcare environments. The facility incorporates glue-laminated timber columns and beams alongside cross-laminated timber floor plates to house community wellness clinics and medical offices. Participants inspect connection detailing and assembly techniques while evaluating how exposed timber supports health and safety standards. The guided walk explores project development methods across designers, fabricators, and owners, examining why specific structural systems and materials were chosen.

What you’ll learn

  • Discuss typical construction practices for mass timber projects specific to exposed mass timber and design for safety and wellness in a healthcare setting.
  • Highlight a variety of structural and architectural uses of glulam and CLT through an in-person tour of a community-focused project, demonstrating how wood products can be used in modern, highly efficient buildings to promote biophilic spaces for occupants.
  • Understand connection detailing techniques used in code-compliant mass timber buildings to ensure appropriate structural capacity and fire resistance, based on the construction type.
  • Identify methods of project development and approaches used by the design team from owners to fabricators that contribute to project success.

Attendance notes

Street parking available.


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