Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Burnaby, B.C., didn't have a spectator venue for sports and events until Perkins&Will and Fast + Epp designed a stadium next to the Terry Fox Field (TFF), respecting the...
Tag: Cross-laminated timber
Vancouver-based Revery Architecture has proposed an innovative roof for the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) Amphitheatre, originally built in the 1960s, which is set for a transformative redevelopment into an open-air theatre. The massive roof...
The Thunder Bay Community Economic Development Commission (CEDC) has launched a pioneering study on the integration of mass timber, focusing on cross-laminated timber (CLT) in the mining sector’s infrastructure.
Integrating mass timber in low-rise construction
(09/08/2023)
With operating energy reductions now incentivized by Passive House Canada and zero-carbon building programs, alongside incremental improvements mandated in legislation such as theBC Energy Step Code, increased attention is being given to the embodied...
Firm crafts mass timber daycare facility in Ontario
(09/06/2023)
The new childcare centre in St. Thomas in Ontario, designed by the architect, Curran Gacesa Slote Architects (CGS Architects), utilizes cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (GLT), enhancing its structural integrity and esthetic appeal.
Limberlost Place, one of Ontario’s first mass timber, net-zero carbon emissions institutional building, has now reached the highest point in its construction. The final wood and steel beams were installed in the 10-storey facility...
Global forest products company, Mercer International Inc. (Mercer), will acquire all the assets of Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation and its subsidiaries (Structurlam) for $81.1 million.
Canadian structural engineer, StructureCraft, built a specially crafted, dual-curve timber roof in a long-span format in University of Idaho’s (U of I’s) basketball arena in Moscow, Idaho.
The KF Centre for Excellence at B.C.’s Kelowna International Airport (YLW) is designed after the wishes of the founder of KF Aerospace—a Canadian aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul company—to “make it feel like a...
A new air terminal in Rouyn-Noranda city in Quebec embraces the city’s identity as lying “between fault and forest” with wood, metal, and glass.
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