Mass Timber Construction Podcast Special Guest - Sandra Lupien - MSU Mass Timber Policy and Change

In this special guest episode I speak with Sandra Lupien, who is
the Director of MassTimber@MSU, a program at Michigan State
University that harnesses outreach, communications, research,
education, and partnerships to advance mass timber construction
and manufacture in Michigan and the surrounding region. Sandra
has two decades of diverse policy, communications, external
affairs, and leadership experience in the non-profit, public, and
private sectors, most of it working at the intersection of
climate change, natural resource policy, and equitable and
sustainable community development. 


While pursuing a mid-career Master of Public Policy at University
of California Berkeley, Sandra caught the mass timber bug in
2016, which led her to do at least three things: 1) research what
it would take to pivot her small beetle-kill pine furniture
company to mass timber manufacturer; 2) to write her Master’s
thesis “Removing Barriers to Cross-Laminated Timber Manufacture
and Adoption in California: A gamechanger for forests, wildfire,
and climate;” and 3) to seize the opportunity to harness her
knowledge and passion to help advance mass timber construction
and manufacture in Michigan – her home state – in this new
position at MSU. 


Production by Deeelicious Beats
Music "Game Play" by Quality Quest
Podcast is a Mass Timber Construction Journal Production
www.masstimberconstruction.com

Sponsors of the Podcast:

International Association for Mass Timber Construction
(IAMTC)
The International Association for Mass Timber Construction aims
to promote and deliver value to its members and associated
stakeholders through an all-encompassing approach to advocacy,
thought-leadership, development for the architecture,
engineering, construction, manufacturing sectors, provide
education, training/teaching and research in establishing a
global mass timber construction sector across the five contents
of the world.





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