Mcdonalds Cross Laminated Timber Chicago

Mcdonald s is heavily touting the project s sustainability bonafides.

Mcdonalds cross laminated timber chicago.

Although the 19 000 sq ft mcdonald s marks the first use. A chicago first for a commercial building heavytimber crosslaminatedtimber timberinnovations mcdonalds. Crews from general contractor walter daniels recently installed a cross laminated timber deck for a 19 000 sq ft mcdonald s restaurant in chicago. Mass timber and mcdonald s.

Our mcdonald s global flagship restaurant is starting to take shape featuring cross laminated timber. It s a way to make the place stand out more than 75 years later mcdonald s is continuing to find ways to stand out this time through the unprecedented use of cross laminated timber clt in their chicago based restaurant at river north on clark and ontario street. Clark street is finally. The architecture i was most interested in seeing was not the most magnificent.

Mcdonald s flagship is the first commercial use of cross laminated timber in chicago. Mcdonald s answer was simple. Cross laminated timber was used for the building s roof and was left exposed on the underside. I wanted to see the new mcdonald s finished last year using mass timber cross laminated timber clt and gluelam.

Clt is a successful building method thanks in part to the relative simplicity of its construction process. A far cry from the kitschy memorabilia of the rock n roll themed building it replaces the essentially all new design of river north s flagship mcdonalds at 600 n. The new building which opened august 9 on the site. But a recent installation of cross laminated timber decking in a one story mcdonald s may mark a new era at least for low rise mass timber.