Services
WholeTrees guides clients through the entire specification process, drawing upon decades of expertise to create strength and beauty from what would otherwise be considered an excess byproduct by the conventional lumber industry. Our expert assistance helps bring trees into your design vision.
In partnership with the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, WholeTrees is forging the required tools, grading systems, and software to promote stronger and healthier construction with round timber.
Design & Engineering Consulting
Source
WholeTrees partners with foresters and landowners to identify timber inventory
Design
Initial discussion to determine scope and design intent
Engineer
Engineering process and PE approval of fabrication drawings
Submit
Assistance with building code and approval process
Select
Tree selection based on region and design intent
Deliver
Fabrication and delivery 8-16 weeks from signed purchase order
WholeTrees offers holistic solutions to the entire specification process. In addition to our fabrication expertise, we can support or lead design and engineering as needed. Product packages come with designed steel connections, PE-stamped shop drawings, and installation guidelines.
Dream Builders. Solution Providers.
Digital Inventory Cataloging & BIM Services
WholeTrees works with foresters and land owners to catalog timber inventory on our Timbers Digital Platform that can serve as inspiration for designers. We utilize scanning technology to capture the shape of real trees and develop BIM 3D models for design use. With these tools, our design team expertly models the organic shape of trees for clients to incorporate into CAD drawings.
Forest Partners
WholeTrees has developed relationships with carbon-smart forests across the country that reflect shared values, longer rotation age, and attention to the environment of the future. These forest partnerships are a key aspect of our vision to create prosperity between forests and communities.
What is a "working Forest"?
A working forest is one that is managed to provide a sustainable supply of wood products, paper, biomass, wildlife habitat, recreation, hunting, clean air and water, and numerous other societal benefits that support regional, local, and rural economies.
Working forests are reliant on the availability of strong forest product markets for the wood harvested from them. Diverse markets for wood products reduce the risk of forests being converted to other land uses, and allow landowners to invest in treatments that keep forests healthy and productive.