Chris Carbone, PE, MS, Preconstruction Engineer, graduated from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering in 1999 and MIT’s School of Architecture in 2003 with a master’s degree in building technology. As one of the few dedicated professional timber design-engineers in the USA, he began his career with the renowned Timber Frame company Bensonwood. There he collaborated with prestigious architects such as Lake Flato, Kieran Timberlake, Gray Organschi, and SOM; responsible for the successful design and delivery of hundreds of projects.  During his tenure, Chris championed the development of innovative wood-based panelized construction systems, integrating glulam, Cross-Laminated Timber, and other mass timber elements into award-winning products and projects.

His passion for carbon sequestering construction systems at scale led him to join Nordic Structures in 2020, where he has served in a design assist role on many of our landmark projects.  He loves efficient structural grids and connections optimized for the natural properties of materials.  He enjoys working to help clients, designers, and construction managers understand how to successfully plan and execute their Mass Timber project. Backed with decades of industry experience, his purposeful approach focuses on solving problems, be it at the detail level of a structural connection, the systems level of a building’s envelope design, or the project level – developing the team and the players for successful resolutions.

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