Overview

Join us for a one-day technical workshop focused on advancing affordable, attractive, zero emissions wood buildings.

• Deepen your understanding of the latest developments in Mass Timber methods, solutions and processes through discussion with local experts.
• Advance wood solutions by collaborating with subject matter experts across industry sectors.
• Resolve persistent barriers.
• Streamline the adoption and design process for wood buildings in BC.

This workshop has been approved for 6 AIBC Core Learning Units. 

The Province of BC recently approved the construction of tall wood buildings up to 12 storeys. This legislation comes into effect with “zero emissions” or “net-zero energy ready” requirements in place and advancing over the next five to ten years. For building design and construction leaders to remain competitive and guarantee their long-term success in local industry, the adoption of innovative alternatives to traditional concrete building systems will be a critical business development.

Workshop Format

The day is broken into two components: a morning of learning with local industry experts, followed by an afternoon working session by participants and experts. We have assembled a selection of technical and regulatory challenges gathered from consultation with practitioners working on complex high-performance projects to bring a real world case study to test and identify effective solutions for designing high-performance wood buildings in BC that may include a range of design details, technical references, spec language or regulatory approaches.

Participants will:

• Share knowledge and exchange ideas;
• Establish best practice solutions (e.g. to standardize where many interpretations or alternative solutions currently exist);
• Validate approaches from elsewhere for application in BC;
• Develop affordable/constructible/simplified solutions to situations of complexity, redundancy or expense;
• Pinpoint regulatory or technical challenges that stand in the way of widespread application of a wood solution pathway to resolution;
• Highlight opportunities for academic or applied R&D to resolve intractable barriers to the widespread adoption of wood; and
• Solve pressing design problems currently standing in the way of high-performance buildings.

Ticket Types

• Full Day Workshop – attend the morning presentations (see point below for topics), catered lunch and afternoon hands-on designing.
• Half Day Presentations – attend the morning presentations focused on mass timber form and affordability; the future of mass timber in industry; costing and prefab-ability; trends in industrialization; a local case study; and embodied carbon.

Limited seats available! Click here to register!

Workshop Agenda

8:00am – Light breakfast and registration

8:30am – Welcome and introductions

8:45am – Presentations and discussions

• Presentation line-up:
  • “The future of mass timber and architecture: where are we headed with form, affordability and zero emissions?” – Andrew Thomson, Associate Principal – ZGF Architects
  • “Recent research in mass timber and pre-fabrication costing” – David Fell, Project Lead, Industrialized Construction – FPInnovations
  • “Modular case study” – Craig Mitchell, Director, Innovative Solutions – Metric Modular
  • “Mass timber and embodied carbon” – Patrick Enright, Green Building Engineer – City of Vancouver

11:30am – Lunch

12:30pm – Introduction and overview of workshop project: 8 storey affordable mass timber

12:45pm – Breakout groups: “what does the City of Wood look like?” (Planning, architecture/fabric, prefab, affordability)

3:30pm – Closing

Venue and Arrival Instructions

The workshop will be held in Room 470 at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue.

***Please enter the venue off of Seymour Street at Hastings

Workshop Speakers and Experts

Andrew Thomson, Associate Principal – ZGF Architects

Christian Cianfrone, Executive Director – ZEBx

Craig Mitchell, Director, Innovative Solutions – Metric Modular

David Fell, Project Lead, Industrialized Construction – FPInnovations

Helen Goodland, Head of Research and Innovation – SCIUS Advisory Inc.

James Emery, Principal – Iredale Architecture

Mark Porter, National Practice Lead, Buildings – Associated Engineers

Patrick Enright, Green Building Engineer – City of Vancouver