Urban Evolutions joins Cambium

An architect designs a building as one project, inside and out. The wood for it usually comes from two places, one for the exterior and one for the interior, so teams end up finding the right material twice.

Today we're thrilled to share that Urban Evolutions, the leader in reclaimed and responsibly-sourced architectural wood interiors, has joined Cambium. For project teams, that means the wood for a whole building can now come from one partner.

For 27 years Urban Evolutions has designed and manufactured customized wood products for commercial, retail and residential projects: dimensional wall paneling, flooring and architectural veneer made from reclaimed, urban and select-harvest wood, and Tribal wood from Tribal Nations' timber harvests.

Their work includes LinkedIn's Omaha campus and OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, both with Gensler, Harvard's One Milestone and Nike's SoHo store. Architects and designers specify them for material with a sourcing story, and they keep coming back because the product holds up on the job.

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Why Urban Evolutions

Cambium is the modern market for wood, a technology and materials company building the future of forest products. We supply domestically sourced wood nationwide through a network of local suppliers, from exterior cladding and decking to structural products, and we're building the technology to change how wood gets sourced, specified and bought. We're more than 110 people in six offices across the East Coast, West Coast and Midwest.

A full interiors offering was the one piece we didn't have. Urban Evolutions was the answer. Robin Janson and her team are product people first. They have been thought leaders in the space for almost three decades, pushing on what wood interiors can be and on how the material gets sourced. Robin has talked about asking clients to see building materials as a finite resource, and Cambium was built on that same belief.

At LinkedIn's Omaha campus, the veneered ash on the walls and ceiling baffles started as 300 trees that had been taken down. Urban Evolutions supplied 40,000 square feet of paneling, and Great Lakes Veneer milled the ash into veneer in Wisconsin. The project is LEED Gold certified and won a 2025 AIA Interior Architecture Award.

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What it means for our customers

Urban Evolutions keeps its name, its team and its home in Appleton. Robin put it simply: "Our team, our name and the way we work stay the same." You can still find them at urbanevolutions.com. What's new is reach, with UE products being added to the Cambium catalog.

We'll have more to share as the teams get to work together. In the meantime, Robin and Paul Timmins will be talking about sourcing, material health and specifying with confidence in "What Is Good Wood?" on November 12 at 1 p.m. ET. Register here.