Tall & Urban News

Construction has officially begun on The Edison, a 28-story mass timber residential tower located at the corner of Edison and State Streets in downtown Milwaukee. 

The Edison will include 353 residential units and a full range of amenities, such as a full-floor membership club and fitness center, health clinic, spa, pool, bathhouse, a sauna, along with a café and organic grocery store. According to the developer, the building’s use of mass timber is projected to reduce its embodied carbon footprint by 54 percent (accounting for biogenic carbon) and cut operational carbon emissions and energy usage by 45 percent compared to conventional buildings of a similar type and use. 

The city is already home to the Ascent, which on 20 July 2022 CTBUH declared the 25-story high-rise 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.  It paved the way to update the code and approvals process for future mass timber buildings in the region. 

The Edison, if completed as proposed at 114.3 meters, would surpass the height of the Ascent.

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