A builder who claims a material is different from a builder who’s been invited to help shape it. Northern Outdoor Living is a member of Owens Corning’s Pro Build Team, a small, selective group of builders that Owens Corning works with to field-test and showcase Owens Corning Lumber, its fully synthetic structural lumber. We didn’t order our way onto that team. We were invited, based on reputation and craftsmanship.
That distinction matters for our clients. The Pro Build Team isn’t a catalog you can buy into. It’s a relationship built on how a company designs, builds, and conducts itself. Owner Dan Pettit was invited after Owens Corning’s product-development leadership noticed how Northern Outdoor Living runs its projects and the caliber of its work. A competitor can’t simply claim the same standing.
Practically, that means we build Owens Corning Lumber and the manufacturer support behind it into every frame. Every client benefits from that access by default. It’s our standard structure, not a premium tier we upsell. We offer wood framing only when a client specifically requests it.
We pair that frame with the deck boards we trust most from Deckorators, Eva-Last, TimberTech AZEK, and Wolf. Owens Corning gives us the strongest possible foundation, and these manufacturers give us the surfaces to build on it.
We think of it as access, not availability. It’s access to a fully synthetic structural product that didn’t exist for most of the industry’s history, and to a partnership that keeps us at the leading edge of where outdoor living is headed.
For Twin Cities homeowners, that means a simple advantage: you’re hiring a builder positioned at the front of a materials shift, not playing catch-up.
