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…
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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…
Williams Lake First Nation government administration building, British Columbia
The Williams Lake First Nation government administration building is a dynamic two-storey hybrid mass timber facility located in the central interior of British…
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…
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…
Innovation Hub: Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) Site Entrance Building,…
PROJECTS Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) Site Entrance Building, Support and Maintenance Facility, and Science Collaboration Centre, Chalk River, Ontario…
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,…
RAIC Architectural Firm Award Winner: MGA | Michael Green Architecture
In 2013, architect Michael Green recorded a TED talk entitled “Why We Should Build Wooden Skyscrapers.” To date, it’s been viewed more than 1.3 million times…
RAIC Emerging Practice Award Winner: Leckie Studio Architecture + Design
Vancouver-based Leckie Studio is a 20-person practice founded by architect Michael Leckie in 2015. The studio operates across a range of scales and…