Ascent 

Milwaukee, United States 
Height: 86.6 m / 284 ft

World's Tallest Timber - Concrete Hybrid Building
Title Conferred: July 2022

Client: New Land Enterprises

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CTBUH officials traveled to Milwaukee on 20 July 2022 to declare the 25-story Ascent the World’s Tallest Timber-Concrete Hybrid Building.  The building took the world’s tallest title in two of the mass timber categories. Mjøstårnet in Brumunddal, Norway, certified by CTBUH in 2019, was the previous world’s tallest timber building at 85.4 meters. Ascent is now both the tallest timber building overall, as well as the tallest concrete-timber hybrid building. The previous tallest concrete-timber hybrid building was the 84-meter HoHo building completed in 2020 in Vienna, Austria.

Director of Research and Thought Leadership Daniel Safarik unveiled a plaque that will be displayed on the façade of the luxury apartment development that tops out at 86.6 meters (284 feet).  The project is a key case study in the CTBUH Research Project “Future Timber City: An Awareness and Educational Program for Future, Sustainable, Dense Cities,” supported by the USDA Forest Service and the Binational Softwood Lumber Council.