A dozen candidates are set to compete in August’s Republican primary to fill Ohio’s vacant 15th Congressional District seat. But one candidate in the crowded field has caught the eye of
Remote consulting now presents a forest of possibility
Much of the work by
Kaiser Group and
Path Architecture is found within a few blocks of the Boise and Eliot neighborhoods in inner North-Northeast Portland. That’s where projects like The Canyons, Carbon12 and The Radiator have helped demonstrate mass timber’s potential as a building material.
Now, the rise in remote working technologies and software such as Revit has aided a new line of business for
Kaiser + Path: consulting on mass-timber building projects around the world.
Kaiser + Path is advising project teams in Japan and New Zealand, as well as on the West Coast. Typically, the developers are most interested in cross-laminated timber and whether it’s a good fit for their projects, said Ben Kaiser, the local all-in-one firm’s founding partner.
New Ohio health order lifts limits on outdoor gatherings: Capitol Letter
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Fans arriving at the Cleveland Indians home opener on Monday, April 5, 2021 at Progressive Field were happy to be back in the stands after the coronavirus shut out fans in 2020. Groups inside the stadium were kept in small pods spread throughout the stadium. A maximum of 11,000 fans were allowed in.David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com
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Rotunda Rumblings
New game, new rules: Shortly before the Cleveland Indians held their home opener Monday afternoon, Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration lifted attendance capacity limits for Progressive Field and other outdoor venues. However, as Jeremy Pelzer explains, seating capacity will likely remain below pre-pandemic levels because of ongoing social-distancing restrictions. The DeWine administration’s new health order also allows festivals, parades, proms, graduations, county fairs, and other mass gatherings in Ohio to onc
Ohio lawmakers fail to address tainted House Bill 6: Capitol Letter
Rotunda Rumblings
6 feet under: The 133rd Ohio General Assembly will end its two-year session without passing any legislation that in any way addresses House Bill 6, the nuclear bailout law at the center of an enormous bribery scandal. As Jeremy Pelzer writes, the reason for such a stunning failure is that legislative Republicans, who dominate both the Ohio House and Senate, are split about whether to keep, repeal, or reform the law.
Sine die? The Ohio House won’t hold any more voting sessions this year, sources said, unless the Senate votes to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of Senate Bill 311, which would strip the governor of his power to issue statewide coronavirus orders. The Senate didn’t hold an override vote, though as Laura Hancock reports, it amended a tax bill to prohibit Ohio governors from closing stores during an infectious disease outbreak in a way that would hurt small businesses because big
EMILY DAWSON, AIA, LEED BD+C
PHENOM Partner and principal architect at Kaiser + Path
Emily Dawson was born and raised in Alaska and was drawn to architecture by her desire to improve the way communities impact the natural environment.
In 2015, Dawson, who earned her bachelor’s degree in architecture at Cornell University, received a travel research fellowship to study mass timber applications in Europe. Her 20 years of experience includes designing the first cross-laminated timber structure built in Oregon as part of an expansion at the Oregon Zoo, and she’s now a sought-after speaker at industry conferences on mass timber products.