The overarching mission in building T3 is to provide a superior work environment in which tenants can recruit and retain the best and the brightest while still achieving space efficiency and cost savings through densification. Every aspect of T3 goes toward meeting this goal.
Welcome to the new standard for today’s most progressive employers
T3 is a new idea in office design that turns your workplace into a tool to recruit and retain valuable talent. Taking inspiration from its historic context in the North Loop, T3 provides a flexible, forward thinking workplace that takes everything we love about the old and makes it new again.
Built out of heavy timber, the project represents the juxtaposition of old and new. Modernity and character, forward design and heritage.
T3 is a new idea in office design that turns your workplace into a tool to recruit and retain valuable talent. Taking inspiration from its historic context in the North Loop, T3 provides a flexible, forward thinking workplace that takes everything we love about the old and makes it new again.
Built out of heavy timber, the project represents the juxtaposition of old and new. Modernity and character, forward design and heritage.
Why build with wood?
Our goal is to deliver the warmth and authenticity of a brick and timber building, with all the benefits of new construction. In addition, using wood to construct T3 generates numerous environmental benefits. The heavy timber throughout T3 actually absorbed C02 before being harvested and there are fewer carbon emissions during the manufacturing process compared to steel, concrete or masonry.
What kind of wood is it?
How big are the columns?
What about parking?
About the Architect
Michael Green Architecture (MGA) goal with every building they design is to deliver an inviting and sustainable project with a predominate work, live, learn, play ethic. MGA keeps in mind the culture and homage when designing sustainable buildings such as T3 and is involved with the 1% For The Planet, who is committed to creating a healthier planet.
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of ... wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary.
What kind of wood is it?
- T3 is a modern "mass timber" construction building, meaning multiple layers of wood will be stacked together to produce longer spans of 20' boards, which allows for more efficient space planning
How big are the columns?
- Columns will range between 10" x 12" and 10" x 19" with the smaller columns on higher floors
- Interior columns and cross beams will be made out of glued laminated beams
- Floor to floor heights will be 11'
- T3 is a high performing building that is able to respond to Minneapolis' ever changing climate
- The weathering steel cladding that will be used on T3 is called "Cor-ten Steel"
- Windows range in width between 7' and 15' and are 7'6" high
- Building design includes a 1" sound mat above the wood floor system then topped with a layer of concrete, which greatly enhances acoustical performance
What about parking?
- Sixty-five underground executive parking spots are available
- Over 3,000 parking spaces available in the adjacent municipal parking ramps B and C
- T3 is designed to handle space programming as dense as 100 square feet per employee
- Floor plans allow for open office layouts as well as the more traditional private office layout
- T3's elevator system, MEP and restroom capacity are all designed to handle the 100 square feet per employee floor plan
- The building can accommodate significantly more tenant growth and densification than comparable buildings
About the Architect
Michael Green Architecture (MGA) goal with every building they design is to deliver an inviting and sustainable project with a predominate work, live, learn, play ethic. MGA keeps in mind the culture and homage when designing sustainable buildings such as T3 and is involved with the 1% For The Planet, who is committed to creating a healthier planet.
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of ... wood. As he details in this intriguing talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary.
True Sustainability
Sourced from young trees to maintain sustainable forestry practices, the timber used in T3 is one of the most ecological and renewable building materials.
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T3 is committed to be a sustainable building that fully supports tenant business needs while maintaining LEED standards.
LEED certification must fulfill certain requirements involving:
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