WoodWorks Regional Excellence Award honors design’s use of wood
The Wood Products Council (WPC) awarded architecture and engineering firm LEO A DALY a Regional Excellence award for its design of SAC Federal Credit Union’s headquarters in Papillion, Neb. The award, given by WPC’s WoodWorks initiative, recognizes extraordinary buildings that exemplify the beauty, versatility, and structural performance of wood.
The SAC design is notable for its use of wood as a structural and aesthetic element. Nine 30-inch deep, 60-foot tall white-oak glue-laminated columns support the building’s signature space—a four-story, glass-enclosed atrium and ornamental staircase. Made from the same white-oak glulams as the columns, the staircase appears to float—supported only by two tension rods connected to a hidden beam in the ceiling.