Cover photo:
Joe Martz | joemartz.com
Contributors
Mark Buckley
Ben McArthur
David Moses
Brooke Smith
Dan Tingley
Brenden Valks
Sarah Hicks
Ioana Lazea
Craig Medaglia
Kim Wiens-Murdock
Wood Design & Building magazine is a publication of the Canadian Wood Council
420 - 99 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 6B9
Phone: 613-747-5544
Sarah Hicks
Editor, Wood Design & Building
Communications & Outreach Manager, CWC
Ioana Lazea
Publisher, Wood Design & Building
Senior Project Manager, CWC
Across Canada, housing innovation is taking shape in wood. In communities large and small, project teams are rethinking how homes are designed and built. They’re embracing modern methods of construction and putting prefabricated, panelized, and modular systems to work to deliver high-quality buildings with greater speed, precision, and care.
This ingenuity matters. Canada’s housing needs are immense, and the gap between what we are building and what communities require remains substantial. No single material or construction method will close it. Yet wood-based construction offers practical ways to make progress: supporting year-round manufacturing, drawing on domestic resources and expertise, and creating places that are both efficient to build and inspiring to inhabit.
In this issue of Wood Design & Building, timed with the return to classrooms and campuses, we highlight two notable mass timber student residences. These projects demonstrate leadership from educational institutions that are not simply responding to an urgent need for student housing but also setting a higher standard for how it can be delivered. They reflect the powerful impact of aligning design ambition, technical knowledge, and a willingness to build differently.
That alignment is where innovation becomes action. Across the country, promising projects are showing what is possible when owners, designers, manufacturers, builders, and communities move with shared purpose. The challenge now is to turn exceptional examples into everyday practice and to create the conditions for good ideas to scale.
The need is clear. So, too, is the opportunity: build more homes, build them well, and make Canada’s expertise in wood design, manufacturing, and construction central to the modernization of homebuilding.
Welcome
Cover photo:
Joe Martz | joemartz.com
Contributors
Mark Buckley
Ben McArthur
David Moses
Brooke Smith
Dan Tingley
Brenden Valks
Sarah Hicks
Ioana Lazea
Craig Medaglia
Kim Wiens-Murdock
Wood Design & Building magazine is a publication of the Canadian Wood Council
420 - 99 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON K1P 6B9
Phone: 613-747-5544
Sarah Hicks
Editor, Wood Design & Building
Communications & Outreach Manager, CWC
Ioana Lazea
Publisher, Wood Design & Building
Senior Project Manager, CWC
Across Canada, housing innovation is taking shape in wood. In communities large and small, project teams are rethinking how homes are designed and built. They’re embracing modern methods of construction and putting prefabricated, panelized, and modular systems to work to deliver high-quality buildings with greater speed, precision, and care.
This ingenuity matters. Canada’s housing needs are immense, and the gap between what we are building and what communities require remains substantial. No single material or construction method will close it. Yet wood-based construction offers practical ways to make progress: supporting year-round manufacturing, drawing on domestic resources and expertise, and creating places that are both efficient to build and inspiring to inhabit.
In this issue of Wood Design & Building, timed with the return to classrooms and campuses, we highlight two notable mass timber student residences. These projects demonstrate leadership from educational institutions that are not simply responding to an urgent need for student housing but also setting a higher standard for how it can be delivered. They reflect the powerful impact of aligning design ambition, technical knowledge, and a willingness to build differently.
That alignment is where innovation becomes action. Across the country, promising projects are showing what is possible when owners, designers, manufacturers, builders, and communities move with shared purpose. The challenge now is to turn exceptional examples into everyday practice and to create the conditions for good ideas to scale.
The need is clear. So, too, is the opportunity: build more homes, build them well, and make Canada’s expertise in wood design, manufacturing, and construction central to the modernization of homebuilding.
Welcome