Designing a Mass Timber Building - What's the Difference?

In an ideal world, a lot of the decisions that you need to make ideally will come much earlier in the process. Decisions often need to be made in a little bit of a different way. Getting a fabricator involved early on can be really very helpful in trying to optimize your design for that particular supplier's lineup. And then I think, like I said, just understanding the different capacities of different suppliers.