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1 month ago | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Kevin Mason |Derek Nighbor |David Elstone
CLT superstructure ready to rise on former parking lot in Kensington Market By Don Procter The Daily Commercial News May 26, 2025 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada East This summer a superstructure for a four-storey housing complex will rise on a former public parking lot in Toronto’s Kensington Market.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |David Elstone |Kevin Mason |Bob Brash
Project profile: Uncovering the secrets behind University of Toronto’s Academic Wood Tower By Don Procter Daily Commercial News December 10, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, Canada East At 77 metres high, the University of Toronto’s 14-floor Academic Wood Tower (AWT) will be the tallest mass timber building in Canada when its classroom doors open in 2026. The tower is novel not just because it is a timber hybrid structure, but also because it is being constructed...
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar |David Elstone
Canada has lots to learn from Sweden’s ‘Timber City’ By Don Procter Journal of Commerce November 5, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Over a span of several decades Växjö, a small city in southern Sweden, has grown a reputation as “a living research area” to test different construction materials and building solutions.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar |David Elstone
Panel provides cross-Canada look at accelerating the adoption of mass timber By Don Procter The Daily Commercial News October 29, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada As a $400 million a year industry mass timber is still in its infancy in Canada, representing only about 1% of all construction.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Bob Brash |Robert McKellar |David Elstone
New York City Mass Timber Studio a resounding success, state participants By Don Procter The Daily Commercial News October 4, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: United States, US East The New York City Mass Timber Studio, a nine-month technical assistance accelerator for seven timber projects in preliminary planning and design, wrapped up last week with a number of participants praising its approach. “It is a game-changer in making mass timber seem like a realistic way to...
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |David Elstone |Derek Nighbor |Kevin Mason
Membertou First Nation builds area’s first mass timber commercial building By Don Procter Daily Commercial News August 2, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, Canada East The Membertou First Nation near Sydney, Cape Breton, is building the area’s first mass timber commercial building, a 92,000-square-foot office complex as part of the community’s new retail and service district. It almost didn’t happen. The original RFP called for a traditional concrete and steel...
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Derek Nighbor |Kevin Mason |Linda Coady
Lack of product standardization hindering mass timber construction’s growth By Don Procter The Daily Commercial News July 11, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada Mass timber construction is making headlines, especially in Toronto and Vancouver where high-profile projects are turning heads, but the “fast-growing” new industry still only makes up about one per cent of all construction in Canada. One growth hurdle is the lack of product standardization. Among manufacturers...
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Kevin Mason |David Elstone |Linda Coady
Timber Talks: Insurance, innovation top of mind for panellists By Don Procter Daily Commercial News March 25, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, Canada West Mass timber construction is growing in Ontario but it still faces hurdles to industry-wide acceptance.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Kevin Mason |David Elstone |Linda Coady
Timber construction and Indigenous practices a natural fit, say panellists By Don Procter Daily Commercial News March 15, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, Canada East The connection between timber construction and First Nations communities goes back ages, long before today’s mass timber movement in major cities such as Toronto. That movement should grow, however, in Indigenous communities as relationships are forged between mass timber proponents and First Nations...
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
treefrogcreative.ca | Don Procter |Kevin Mason |David Elstone |Linda Coady
$215M mass timber plant in Nova Scotia a ‘groundbreaking’ Indigenous collaboration By Don Procter Daily Commercial News March 13, 2024 Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building Region: Canada, Canada East A $215 million mass timber manufacturing plant being developed in Nova Scotia could reap economic benefits that ripple through its community, region, province and Atlantic Canada. It will be “one of the most modern plants of its kind,” producing 50,000 cubic metres of commodity mass timber and...
