Explore how mass‑timber carbon sequestration, ground‑source geothermal, solar‑ready infrastructure, smart water and energy monitoring, and other cutting‑edge eco‑features are reshaping Canada’s latest ...

Inside, the framing systems of the CLT and Danpal meet ... The translucent facade allows light into the offices and exposes the wood frame from the exterior. (Fabian Martínez) One of the ...

Toward that end, behind its darkly tinted glass exterior, the six-story, 116,000-square-foot structure, which meets the ground with steel V-shaped columns, has a frame composed of glulam columns and ...

LEVER Architecture exemplifies this movement with its pioneering "forest-to-frame" model ... LEVER's innovation began with cross-laminated timber (CLT), a prefabricated panel that offers ...

Maximum-sized domestic CLT panels are utilized, maintaining an upright position with a simple configuration. A steel frame is employed and sandwiched by two CLT panels, expressing and showcasing CLT ...

The entry hall’s timber frame and cladding—particularly at the southeast corner, where the curtainwall glazing displaces the spruce CLT panels, exposing the Douglas fir glulam structure as a frame—is ...

The facade system layers CLT structure, insulation ... as a conventional brick and steel frame building would have added five months. Yet we had to find savings elsewhere. Working with engineers and ...

Quick, easy and cheap to construct, the ‘Little House’ was the prototype for what came to be known as the ‘Segal Method’ – a way of building that eliminated the need for bricklaying and plastering in ...

possibly mass timber or CLT’. We proposed a mass timber building but also a building that was, perhaps unusually, clad in timber. We wanted to make the most of mass timber. W3 is a timber building.

The CLT shell had other benefits, such as a highly thermally efficient structure in comparison to wood-frame. We strongly felt that the wood should be exposed on the interior, and we picked certain ...

Intricate detailing of the brick facade ... the timber frame is a good community contribution,” the judge added. Perras says the high interest in being able to work with CLT and glulam on ...