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...
Tag: Glue-laminated timber
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...
The Nancy Pauw Bridge, a recently erected footbridge over the Bow River, connecting Central Park to the Banff Recreation Grounds in Alberta, amplifies the beauty of the Rocky Mountain landscape, with minimal impacts to...
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) and glue-laminated timber (glulam) products are used in applications where they will be highly stressed under design loads. Drilling or notching LVL and glulam must typically be avoided. However, in...
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.