Tag Archives: Mass Timber

B.C. government invests in 12 mass timber projects

April 21, 2021 sadia_badhon

The British Columbia government is investing in 12 mass timber demonstration and research projects to help accelerate the adoption of mass timber building systems.

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CSC Ottawa discusses the mass timber revolution

April 7, 2021 sadia_badhon

The Ottawa Chapter is holding a virtual educational webinar on “The Mass Timber Revolution,” on Wednesday, April 28, from 12 to 1 p.m.

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Three-tower development in Kelowna to feature tallest building in B.C.’s Interior

March 2, 2021 sadia_badhon

Kelowna, B.C., city council has approved Water Street by the Park, a three-tower development that includes 650 homes, 4181 m² (45,000 sf) of retail and restaurant space, and what will be the tallest tower in B.C.’s Interior, standing at 133 m (442 ft) once completed.

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Mass timber construction: Building for the better

February 26, 2021 maz_atta

Environmentally responsible development requires high-performance buildings that pay greater attention to both embodied energy and operational impact. Mass timber construction provides an avenue for delivering sustainable buildings of the future.

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Wood in civic buildings

January 14, 2021 sadia_badhon

For public projects, as for other types of buildings, new engineered mass timber products, supported by recent legislation, make wood an economic and functional choice in both rural and urban areas. Two recent B.C. projects illustrate this point.

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Katerra is North America’s largest mass timber producer

August 11, 2020 sadia_badhon

Katerra has emerged as North America’s largest end-to-end mass timber design, manufacturing, and construction firm with the capacity to produce 185,000 m3 (653,3213 cf) of cross-laminated timber (CLT) annually.

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Ground breaks on Toronto tall wood tower

August 5, 2020 sadia_badhon

Construction has begun on the workplace component of the Bayside Toronto waterfront master-planned community with the groundbreaking of T3 Bayside (T3 stands for timber, talent, and technology). The first of two twin, heavy timber office buildings at Bayside Toronto, T3 Bayside will be constructed using an innovative and highly sustainable mass timber structure, and feature market-leading amenities.

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B.C. seeks to use mass timber to drive economic growth

June 23, 2020 sadia_badhon

British Columbia Premier John Horgan has announced the province will focus on mass timber construction to bolster the forest industry. Premier Horgan has appointed Ravi Kahlon, parliamentary secretary for forests, lands, natural resource operations, and rural development, to lead the expansion and use of mass timber in B.C. buildings.

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Revealing Canada’s first zero-carbon, mass timber college building

February 24, 2020 sadia_badhon

Dialog, EllisDon, and Smoke Architecture have a won a competition to design Centennial College’s A Block Expansion Building in Toronto.

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Employing wood in commercial buildings

January 9, 2020 nithya_caleb

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 mass wood products to achieve very different effects.

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