University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)’s civil engineering assistant professor, Dr. Ramla Qureshi, and her team will be given a grant of $132,000 over a period of five years from the Discovery Grants (DG)...
Tag: Cross-laminated timber
A new Vancouver office building known as oN5 was quickly constructed with entirely insulated, prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT)
Employing wood in commercial buildings
(01/09/2020)
The 2015 edition of the National Building Code of Canada (NBC) permits mixed-type occupancies on the first two storeys of wood buildings. Two facilities in British Columbia, both with primary retail occupancies, employ several...
Construction has begun for structural engineering firm Fast + Epp’s new four-storey mass timber office in Vancouver. The hybrid superstructure is scheduled to be erected within 12 days.
On April 15, the world watched as the Notre-Dame in Paris, constructed eight centuries ago, nearly saw its end in the historic fire that devoured its roofs. Now, Belgian ecological architecture firm Vincent Callebaut...
T3 Bayside, on of the tallest timber office buildings in North America, will be emerging in Toronto’s Bayside community, located on the shores of Lake Ontario. Designed by 3XN, the 10-storey structure will be...
Langley set for another mass timber development
(03/27/2019)
Legacy on Park Avenue in Langley, B.C., is a six-storey condominium combining advanced building systems with cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels. According to the Canadian Wood Council (CWC), this is also the very first application...
Industrial buildings in wood
(12/28/2018)
Three buildings in southern British Columbia offer insights into how industrial construction might evolve to offer greater environmental performance as well as speed and flexibility when employing mass timber products and systems.
New research from the University of British Columbia’s (UBC’s) School of Engineering and Western University, Ont., provides a roadmap to safer tall timber building designs in tornado-prone areas.
A recent workshop on fire properties of materials concluded cross-laminated timber (CLT) and insulation applied to the exteriors of high-rise buildings are among the materials most in need of urgent research and development.
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