The expansion of Conestoga College’s North Campus has added a four-storey structure to University Avenue in Waterloo, Ontario, acting as a gateway to passersby and showcasing the school’s culinary and hospitality program.
Tag: Panels
A patented technology of corrugated steel structural panels was used to build out an indoor soccer stadium, Saguenay, Que., which shifted the weight of the building to its walls, cancelling the reliance on columns...
A new Vancouver office building known as oN5 was quickly constructed with entirely insulated, prefabricated cross-laminated timber (CLT)
DIALOG officially files for patent of HTFS
(12/14/2021)
The HTFS combines cross-laminated timber panels with steel and concrete to build high-rise towers with a reduced carbon footprint.
The construction industry has witnessed an ongoing trend toward large-dimension material panels over the last 60 to 70 years. A pattern of 1.2 x 2.4-m (4 x 8-ft) sheets of oriented strandboard (OSB) and...
In London, Ont., a multi-residential apartment building built in 1970 was beginning to show significant signs of wear and tear on its exterior clay through-the-wall (TTW) brick, and owners had to develop a plan....
Turning retrofits into success stories with IMPs
(07/09/2014)
Driven by the principles of high-performance energy (HPE) buildings through government, energy codes, and the green building movement, building energy designs across Canada and around the world strive to improve. The increasing focus on...