Siobhan Rockcastle and Kyuho Ahn have been awarded an Agricultural Research Services (ARS) Tallwood Design Institute grant through the USDA for the proposal titled, ‘Surface matters: Exploring the impact of finishes on human factors that limit the market adoption of mass timber.’ This $40,000 grant supports a human factors study on the perceptual impacts of surface finishes in mass timber buildings, with a focus on lighting and acoustic performance and coordination with electrical, mechanical, and fire suppression systems.
