The University of British Columbia Point Grey Campus in Vancouver will be the site of the tallest mass timber building in the world, with a height of 53 meters and standing at 18-storyes high. Under the name of Brock Commons, the $51.5 million project will be completed in 2017. Also, it will provide room for 404 students and will have 4-bedroom units and a mix of studios, alongside with new academic space.
The building was designed by Acton Ostry Architects, with the help of Hermann Kaufmann, the tall wood adviser and will top Treet, the 50 m and 14-storye residential apartment in Bergen, near Oslo, Norway, which is now the tallest in the world.
Brock Commons will be built using a two-way CLT floor slabs, glulam columns, steel conectors, gypsum board and concrete cones. Tall wood building’s proponents state that a wooden building is way more safer than steel when it comes to fire hazards because charred wooden surfaces protect the structural wood underneath.
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Mass timber structure
Longitudinal view of the building
