LeMay Museum, a 165,000-square-foot facility designed to celebrate America’s love affair with the automobile, is part of a 9-acre campus housing up to 350 cars, trucks and motorcycles. When faced with the challenge of providing a 300-foot-long roof spanning more than 100 feet, the museum’s architect initially assumed steel beams were the answer. However, when the required fireproofing turned out to be prohibitively expensive, Western Wood Structures redesigned the roof using large glulam beams which were panelized on the ground and erected into place. The timber roof offered the advantage of Type IV Heavy Construction, which eliminated the need for additional fire protection, and is one of the world’s largest wood moment frames.