Susan Jones
Susan Jones, FAIA, LEED BD+C, is a practicing architect, founder of atelierjones, an architecture, urban and ecodesign firm. Founded in 2003, the firm’s award winning work brings design, research, and community engagement to research and build new sustainable strategies and buildings, including groundbreaking work with cross-laminated-timber, CLT. atelierjones is completing two multi-story projects using CLT, including the first CLT house in Seattle, and a church, two of the first CLT structures completed in the US.
Over the last decade, excitement about a new strong, green, and beautiful building material has been growing. Developed in Central Europe in the mid-1990’s, Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) is a constructed wooden panel. These panels are made up of smaller timber pieces laminated together to create large and very strong...