Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved novel, “Anne of Green Gables,” has captivated a global audience. Green Gables Heritage Place is now among Canada’s top federal parks, with its Visitors Centre featuring traditional barn-style structures connected...
Tag: Glulam
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...
A prefab mass timber company is planning an inaugural mass timber parking structure in British Columbia. This initiative seeks to transform the construction industry by substituting conventional concrete and steel with the sustainable and...
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.
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.
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...
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...
Formline Architecture + Urbanism, Chevalier Morales architectes, and Architecture49 have designed Saskatoon’s new central library, inspired by the traditional First Nation and Métis architecture to bring reconciliation and sustainability to the forefront.
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...
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is getting $2 million from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) for a four-storey mass timber office building in Toronto.