BC firms launch new report on wood use in K-12 schools
A new report on the use of wood in the design and construction of kindergarten to grade 12 schools has just been released. The report, titled Wood Use in…
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Hybrid Timber Floor System project receives Canadian grant funding
The Government of Canada has contributed over $550,000 to the Hybrid Timber Floor System Project led by EllisDon and DIALOG. The project is funded through the…
Intelligent City Raises $30 Million to Advance the Sustainable Urban Housing…
Housing technology company Intelligent City has raised $22 million, bringing the total capital invested in the firm to $30 million. According to the company,…
Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens
In 2020, I led a studio at the University of Toronto’s John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design that asked: How can we halve the carbon…
DIALOG files for patent of hybrid timber floor system
DIALOG has officially filed for the patent of its Hybrid Timber Floor System (HTFS), a zero carbon prototype that received an award for Fast Company’s “2021…
Cunard Street Live/Work/Grow
"The jury found the design to be well executed, and was excited to see an architecture firm taking the initiative to experiment with this mix of programs on an…
Intelligent City opens automated urban housing factory
Intelligent City, the sister company to Vancouver architecture firm LWPAC, has begun building net-zero, mass timber urban housing projects in a newly opened…
Mass timber construction company Katerra announces plans to shut down
Katerra, the modular prefabrication startup and timber construction company is reportedly shutting down and plans on letting its thousands of employees go,…
BC Government Funds 12 Mass Timber Research Projects
The government of British Columbia is funding 12 mass timber demonstration and research projects and has established a new advisory council to accelerate the…
Fast + Epp head office receives recognition by the Canadian Wood Council and BC…
Fast + Epp's new head office, designed by f2a architecture, is being recognized by the Canadian Wood Council and the BC forest industry for its innovation and…
SoLo House, British Columbia
Sitting lightly upon a forested knoll overlooking the Soo Valley in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, Perkins and Will’s performance-led project is not a…
UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing announces the Future of Prefabrication…
The UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) is hosting a symposium regarding the Future of Prefabrication in collaboration with the UBC School of…
CAMH Research Centre
"This is a big building that seems comfortable, with qualities of delicacy and softness."
NRCan invests in mass timber buildings for Chalk River Laboratories
Natural Resources Canada is investing nearly $4 million towards a series of mass timber buildings being constructed at the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited’s…
BC looks to implement construction of mass timber buildings across the province
British Columbia Premier John Horgan has announced that the province is taking steps to strengthen its forest and timber industry by expanding the use of mass…
Fast+Epp releases new online mass timber design tool
Fast + Epp Structural Engineers have announced the newest web application addition to its Concept Lab collection, the Timber Bay Design Tool. Developed…