mass timber construction
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New heights for Ontario mass timber construction
A promised amendment to Ontario's building code will allow for mass timber buildings of up to 18 storeys, an increase above the current 12-storey threshold..
Construction Business
Mass timber guidelines for B.C. engineers, architects
Engineers and Geoscientists BC and AIBC have published new guidelines for designing mass timber buildings up to 12 storeys.
Design Quarterly
Mass timber buildings and acoustical challenges
Despite the many benefits to mass timber construction, they do present some unique acoustical challenges and required proper design.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Report: The state of mass-timber design
Mass-timber construction is gaining traction across Canada thanks to new product technologies, advanced techniques, and changes within the 2020 National Building Code of Canada (NBCC).
Canadian Property Management
NRCan provides funding for TRCA’s new building
The funding is contributed as part of Natural Resources Canada’s Green Construction Through Wood (GCWood) program, which aims to encourage greater use of wood in construction projects.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Canada invests $4.1M in The Arbour
The $134-million project is the first project funded through the Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) program.
CondoBusiness
UBC Wesbrook Village condo reaches key milestone
The final mass timber panel has been installed at Adera’s Virtuoso project in UBC’s Wesbrook Village, marking a key milestone in its construction.
