Timber Frame homes and buildings are our history and what we're known for. Whether partnering with an architect or builder to make the frame and enclosure of their clients' space a reality or cutting one of our own designs — raising day is something special. The flying timbers, the orchestration of assembly, the craftsmen on the frame, the clients on the ground, and the pine bough at the end. Here's a sneak preview of a few of our favorites, including some good ole' fashioned hand raisings, to give you a raising day experience.

Winter weather doesn't hold back raising day. In fact, our crews are pretty used to Western New York snow and know how to bring a smile and a smooth assembly to a near zero degree day.

New Energy Works hand raises a timber frame pavilion for a family in Portland, Oregon. Hand raising, though not the norm today, are some of our favorites for the sense of community they bring to the creation of building. Many hands and sweat replace cranes, and people become intimate with the timbers as the building comes together.

Video by Design Build Cinema.

Time lapse of a timber frame home for clients in Sisters, Oregon in the summer of 2022.

Community hand raising of the Mount Angel Abbey’s Benedictine Brewery in Oregon. This modest timber frame designed by Henry Fitzgibbon of Soderstrom Architects and New Energy Works, will house the 1,500-year-old monastic tradition of brewing artisanal beer, in this case Benedictine Brewery Black Habit, Farmhouse Ale, and other traditionally brewed favorites.

Paradise in the Oregon Coast Range: New Energy Works timber frame home, raised in April 2024 by our West Coast team. Read more about this "human-scaled" frame raising here.

At the end of many of our timber frame raisings, we will place a pine bough at the tip-top of the frame, as part of a classic timber frame ceremony. Jonathan Orpin, founder & president, takes us through the tradition at this private barn raising in Oregon.

New Energy Works Timber Framers are excited to have raised a new project for past clients Tom and Linny. We crafted a timber frame barn/garage adjacent to their home in the Finger Lakes Region of New York state. The white pine timbers span 26' under several scissor trusses. (Linny shared her talents with us, bringing color to the initial design drawing.)

Max of Maxwell Associates snagged Mike G, our timber frame foreman and master timber framer, for a few words on a custom timber frame roof system Mike and team raised in Connecticut. Our thanks to both Maxwell Associates and Shope Reno Wharton for including us on this timber frame barn project.

The New Energy Works west coast team raising the timber frame for a Wild Horse Ranch project in the Alvord Desert of Oregon. The day before the raising the team woke up to an inch of snow, 20° temps, and 25mph winds. But those challenges quickly faded to sunshine and warm hearts as the frame went up.

Take a peek inside New Energy Works design team's sketchbooks with fly-throughs and pans of timber frame homes that are in-progress. See something that inspires the vision for your project? Call us. All of our design work is custom, but seeing something you like is a great place to start a conversation.

Design rendering fly through of the Wild Horse Ranch timber frame horse barn in Alvord Desert, Oregon. Design and timber frame by New Energy Works.

Take a journey through a New Energy Works design + build modern timber frame home. High performance enclosure system through our HPEz service, custom woodworking from NEWwoodworks, and reclaimed/sustainable wood flooring, paneling, and siding from Pioneer Millworks.

Read more about this single level timber frame home and barn project for a central NY couple on The Beetle Blog.

Take a quick peek at this timber frame home by New Energy Works in PA.

Come into the HPEz shop, where we make our off-site high-performance enclosures. One of the best ways to reduce the energy of a space is special consideration to the planning, materials, and construction of the building envelope. Our pre-panelized wall and roof systems are customizable to each project. Using semi-automated tooling, good old-fashioned experience and know-how, welcome to High Performance Made Easier™ (we’re calling it HPEz). This is the latest evolution of our Matrix Wall™ which we have designed and crafted in the USA with the planet in mind for over 15 years.

Step out to site with us for a HPEz enclosure installations. One of the best ways to reduce the energy of a space is special consideration to the planning, materials, and construction of the building envelope. Our pre-panelized wall and roof systems are customizable to each project. Using semi-automated tooling, good old-fashioned experience and know-how, welcome to High Performance Made Easier™ (we’re calling it HPEz). This is the latest evolution of our Matrix Wall™ which we have designed and crafted in the USA with the planet in mind for over 15 years.

Our thanks to Reimagine Buildings & Holzraum for including our work & team in this piece about High-Performance Enclosures.

See how prefab panels, Passive House design, and timber frame construction are coming together in a sustainable, high-performance, and low embodied-carbon home. Ilka Cassidy and Steve Hessler of Holzraum System guide us through the design process and share how they and the team at New Energy Works are navigating this new landscape of sustainable construction.

Learn More About Passive House at https://www.passivehouseaccelerator.com
Holzraum System: https://www.holzraumsystem.com/
New Energy Works: https://newenergyworks.com/

Founder & President, Jonathan Orpin cuts the "Ribbon" of New York State's first complete CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) and Heavy Timber building. This 21,000 Square Foot facility is housing our fine woodworking division, NEWwoodworks.

Follow the progression from the collapse of the previous building that housed our fine woodworking division, NEWwoodworks, through the raising and "ribbon" cutting of the new CLT (Cross Laminated Timber) building.

Yep, we've been cutting and raising timber frames for a long time. Take a step back with us to the mid 80's when we were younger and video was less sophisticated, but the frames were still beautiful.