mass timber

FPInnovations—a non-profit specializing in creating solutions that support the Canadian forest sector and its government and industry partners—has launched the…

Centennial College is collaborating with EllisDon, DIALOG and Smoke Architecture to construct a mass timber higher-education building based on the Indigenous…

There is a resurgence in the use of wood with the advent of mass timber building products—a topic we explore in our recent review of 80 Atlantic by Quadrangle,…

PROJECT 80 Atlantic ARCHITECT Quadrangle TEXT Javier Zeller PHOTOS Bob Gundu Can a building material have moral weight? The way architects have associated…

TEXT AND DIAGRAMS J. David Bowick The most novel architectural material in Canada right now is an old one—wood. But when made into mass timber beams and…

This coming Thursday and Friday, the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University located in Sudbury, Ontario is hosting an International Wood…

Procurement is a big issue for architects across the country, including for Ontario architects who work in the institutional sector. Public- private…

British Columbia is leading the charge on sustainability in Canada. Starting in 2017, the province’s Energy Step Code has provided an incremental approach to…

Embodied carbon will be responsible for almost half of total new construction emissions between now and 2050.

Tall wood buildings and the expanded use of mass timber show significant potential in growing the market for Canada’s forest products industry, according to a…