Pete Kobelt is the Director of Mass Timber Solutions for Structure Tone – a multi-billion-dollar international construction company making huge moves into the Mass Timber market. Pete has a storied background in North America’s Mass Timber history – being directly involved with the first CLT commercial office building in the United States, and then starting and working with several Mass Timber producers including SmartLam and Katerra.

STO Building Group (parent company of Structure Tone) is a global giant founded in 1971 that’s recognized as being on the leading edge of construction management and does over $10.4 Billion in annual construction volume. Leveraging new and innovative tools and strategies – they’ve propelled themselves to over 4,500 employee and 49 offices across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland. To top it off, they were named the #7 Green Building Contractor in 2022.

Mass Timber projects include the jaw dropping Southstone Yards in Frisco, TX – a 250,000 sq ft office project and the Clemson University Forestry & Environmental Conservation Building Renovation – a 82,436 sq ft 4-story building with ground level Type IA cast-in-place concrete and 3 stories of Type IIIB mass timber on top of that. 

Pete takes us through his professional journey and dives deep into mass timber market trends (its SHOCKING). He also explores how and why the North American domestic producers are set up the way they are and reveals what the European manufacturer’s do differently and have planned for this market. 

Connect with Pete on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pete-kobelt/
Email Pete at: [email protected]
Structure Tone Mass Timber Projects: https://stobuildinggroup.com/projects/services/mass-timber/

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