Fast + Epp head office receives recognition by the Canadian Wood Council and BC forest industry
Fast + Epp head office receives recognition by the Canadian Wood Council and BC forest industry
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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 ingenuity in wood design and building. It has been selected for funding support under Natural Resources Canada’s Green Construction through Wood (GC Wood) Program.
The hybrid mass timber building, located near downtown Vancouver on Yukon Street, is among the first office buildings in Vancouver to use mass timber as a structural material, and will showcase the same structural technologies that are at the forefront of the engineering firm’s consulting practice.
Panel discusses growing adoption of mass timber
Glulam beams and cross-laminated timber panels were installed in the Hidden Creek Community Center in Hillsboro last year. (DJC file)
Mass timber is quickly growing in scale as a preferred building material throughout North America, panelists said during a discussion on Thursday.
A tally maintained by the
Wood Products Council, an industry group, counted 598 projects using mass timber in the design stage in North America in December 2020. Another 462 projects were built or under construction.
“There’s a mass-timber wave that is pulling through North America right now,” said Paul Fast, founder of structural design firm
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