Opinion: Mass timber makes sense for new building in Maine

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 16, 2022

Last week, the Portland Museum of Art was awarded $300,000 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the PMA Blueprint, our sustainable campus expansion and unification project in collaboration with LEVER Architecture. The investment – part of a larger $43 million allocated by the USDA to organizations that expand innovative uses of wood – acknowledges the PMA’s commitment to using mass timber as the primary building material throughout our project, and is the latest validation of mass timber’s immense potential here in Maine. ~ Mark Bessire, Portland Museum of Art