Mass Timber

A sustainable construction material with many benefits

AKA employs mass timber in many of our projects. This innovative building technology brings many benefits to our work, including carbon sequestration, structural simplicity, prefabrication, and natural beauty. Mass timber is a category of construction systems that uses premanufactured wood products for wall, floor, roof, column, and beam assemblies. Typical components include Cross Laminated Timber Panels (CLT), Nail Laminated Timber Panels (NLT), Glulam beams, and columns, which are made of dimensional (2-by) lumber as opposed to the large, solid wood members associated with heavy timber.

Mass timber has many benefits to the development industry, including aesthetics, design flexibility, environmental performance, strength and rigidity, lighter weight (compared to concrete construction), and energy efficiency. In prefabricated buildings, mass timber is particularly beneficial; it has the structural simplicity needed for cost-effective projects and design versatility and it can be rapidly installed with reduced waste. 

mass timber office post and beam exposed wood
mass timber structure bim for squamish office building
office floor structure with clt panels and glued laminated beams and columns design
clt mass timber structural bay detail assembly
exploded detail of mass timber post and beam joint
mass timber structure assembly diagram squamish office
cross laminated timber and glu laminated colums and berams in mass timber office squamish vancouver bc
cross laminated timber panel preparation with fasterners
clt panel being lifted into place by crane
mass timber assembly on site using crane
factory manufactured mass timber components during site assembly construction
fire hall bays in mass timber clt under construction in whistler
mass timber design architect bc