Principal, Shawn Roberge, Design Engineer, Keva Rollins, and Marketing Manager, Kristen Gaer share about the mass timber innovation behind the Forest Trailhead Woodland Park Zoo.

“How do you transport and install a beam that long, that curved, and that visible?

Seattle-based structural engineering firm Lund Opsahl approached the challenge with a clear mandate from the design team: the structural solution had to work as hard aesthetically as it did mechanically.”

Read the article in the May 2026 issue of Structure Magazine.