Wisconsin-based design and construction firm WholeTrees Structures is on a mission to nurture the relationship between the built environment and forests. To do so, the company repurposes waste trees—trees that are deemed too thin to be milled yet are still structurally sound—to create sustainable commercial timber products and technologies. When Malcolm Holtzman, partner at Steinberg Hart, reached out to WholeTrees in 2020 about the 24,000 square-foot Children’s Museum of Eau Claire (CMEC)—the construction firm’s largest project to date—CMEC became proof-of-concept for structural round timber (SRT) as a sophisticated, sustainable material at-scale.
Museum interiors showcase the creative use of WholeTrees’s heavy timber columns to not
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