Executives from Columbia Property Trust were joined on April
22 by general contractor DAVIS Construction, architecture and design firm
Hickok Cole, construction firm Katerra, and a group of trade partners to
celebrate the official topping out of 80 M Street’s three-floor mass timber
vertical expansion.
The project will add 105,000 s/f of space atop Columbia’s existing
Capitol Riverfront office building.
Once completed in 2022, it will become D.C.’s first
commercial offices to rely primarily on mass timber and glass, as well as the
first overbuild in the nation to utilize mass timber as its main design
element.
“The mass timber expansion at 80 M will soon house D.C.’s