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📢 New Project Alert! – #AffordableHousing #masstimber project in Toronto – 7 Vanauley St. 📢 🏗️ Groundbreaking has already taken place for a new 18,354 sq. ft., 6-storey mass timber building for the YMCA of Greater Toronto. It will provide 31 units (each with a kitchenette and bathroom) for 2SLGBTQ+ youth who are experiencing, or at risk of experiencing homelessness. 🌲 We are very proud to be part of this rapid housing project by supplying #CLT walls and floors for the building. ♥️ A safe and affordable place to call home is the foundation for building stability and security to a person’s life. At Element5, we believe strongly that prefabricated mass timber panelized solutions are part of the solution to address today’s urgent housing needs. 🌟 PROJECT DETAILS · New building will be connected to the existing 2-storey Vanauley Street Centre for Youth.         · Units will be offered as rent-geared-to-income, with no tenant paying more than 30% of their income on rent. ·  Tenants will receive wraparound support services from by the YMCA. ·  Building will have centralized ground source heat pumps. 👷🏽 Project Team Includes - Client: YMCA of Greater Toronto - Developer: Assembly Corp. - Architects: CMV Group architects, mcCallumSather - General Contractor: Loftin Management - Design Consultant: Thornton Tomasetti, - Engineering Consultants: ASPECT Structural Engineers - Builder Materials: Fab Structures - Mass Timber Supplier: Element5 The project is supported by the City of Toronto and the Government of Canada’s Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI). The RHI is delivered by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL) under the National Housing Strategy.

📢 Element5 and HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER will be at the Montréal Wood Convention, April 8 - 10 📢 Come by our booth to say hello and let's talk #masstimber! 🌲 The Montréal Wood Convention is an event organized by the wood industry itself. Dedicated to fostering growth, innovation, and collaboration within the wood sector, it's a place where industry professionals come together to shape the future of the field. 🌟 Montreal Wood Convention Details - When: April 8 - 10 - Location: Fairmont Queen Elizabeth - Element5 and HASSLACHER are at Booth #31 🔗 Register today: https://lnkd.in/dNZt_6HK #MWC2025

The new police station in Hershey, Pennsylvania, exemplifies the seamless integration of Cross-Laminated Timber (#CLT) and steel in modern construction. The team at Quality Buildings LLC has delivered exceptional work, overseeing both the supply and installation of Element5’s Douglas fir / SPF hybrid #CLT prodcut for this impressive project.

📢 Join us for a FREE WoodWorks webinar this Wednesday, April 2 on #masstimber vertical additions. 📢 We'll look in-depth at a real-life case study of the Pathway Arbour Mill expansion project. 👉🏼About the Project Pathway Non-Profit in Mississauga, Ontario sought to add additional units to their housing complex for seniors quickly and with as little disruption as possible to their current residents. The solution? A mass timber vertical addition. 🏗 After much research, they decided to add 2 new floors using a hybrid steel and cross-laminated timber (CLT) structure to the top of one of their existing buildings – a 35 year-old, 4-storey, 98 unit development called Abour Mill. 🌲 The project sets a remarkable precedent for other non-profit #affordablehousing providers who want to build more housing using mass timber additions. Webinar Details 📅 Date: April 2nd, 2025 🕛 Time: 12 p.m. (ET) ⏳ Duration: 60 minutes 🔗 Register today! https://lnkd.in/gmR5UVdX Speakers - Stephen Balamut, Project Manager, Element5 - Roman Spektor, General Manager, Pathway Non Profit Community Development - Cathy Tafler, Architect, Tafler Rylett Architects - Craig Nicoletti, P. Eng., Partner, Structural Engineer, Engineering Link #VerticalAdditions #SustainableBuilding #Element5

We were happy to host the Leadership team from JVC Precision Ltd at our St. Thomas #masstimber facility this month to discuss present and future business and to walk them through our expansion space (currently under Construction) that will house our new #glulam line. JVC supplied all of the baseplates and beam hangers for the office and canopy for the expansion (as seen in the pics below along with those gorgeous Glulam fishbelly beams). JVC is a strategic partner for Element5 and has supplied custom steel connections and weldments to over 30+ of our projects. Having great partners like JVC Precision is part of Element5’s success story! We're happy to say that our expansion is progressing as scheduled and remains on track to launch this year! It will increase the size of our current facility substantially from 130,000 sq. ft. to over 350,000 sq. ft. of floor space with office frontage. Pictured in the photos are: - Tracy Fleming- Materials Manager, Element5 - Miguel Herrera - Customer Support Executive, JVC Precision - Michael van Campen - President, JVC Precision - Pat Hullah - General Manager, JVC Precision #stthomasproud

🎉 And that's a wrap on 2025's International Mass Timber Conference! It was a pleasure connecting with fellow builders, architects, developers and so many other passionate professionals in the #masstimber industry. A huge thank you to everyone who visited the boot we shared with our colleagues at HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER. See you again next year in Portland! cc Lee Scott, Bernadette Brandstätter, RAFFAELE PARLATO

📢 Element5 is proud to have participated in the #masstimber feasibility study with our colleagues at Studio VMA Inc. / Studio Veronica Madonna Architect for the Toronto District School Board. 📢 👉🏼 As this recent Globe and Mail article states, the feasibility study concluded that the use of mass timber is beneficial for health, safety, environmental and cost benefits and because of the study. As a result, the new Poplar Road school will be designed using mass timber. We couldn’t agree more with Carol Phillips when she states: “We want the finished building to be an instructional tool to teach both industry and these students about sustainability and to understand we are all a part of nature, not separate from it,” ♥️ “A building like this, if it places itself in the land … can actually help us to heal our broken relationship with the planet.” 🌲 We hope that other school boards will look at the study and Polar Road and see what we see -> that mass timber is a cost-effective, sustainable, healthy solution.   🌟 The Future of School construction is mass timber! 🔗 To read the article, see the link in the comments below. Renderings courtesy of Moriyama Teshima Architects.

The International Mass Timber Conference has started in Portland! We are set up with HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER at Booth 772. Come by to say hello and let's talk #masstimber! Proud to be a WoodWorks partner.

We had tons of fun at last week's Pub & Learn in Toronto, where Element5 staffers Lee Scott, and Kevin Rocchi shared some #masstimber insights with a sold out crowd. Kevin in particular was in his element (see what we did there?), taking folks through the ins and outs of #CLT and #Glulam production. Hailey Quiquero also spoke about encapsulated mass timber and the Ontario Code, and Connie Rowley spoke about insurance and mass timber - an important topic for the industry. Many thanks go to WoodWorks for hosting the evening - it was well organized, the food, drinks and venue were great and the company was outstanding! Kudos Brock O'Donnell, Steven Street, Woodsure, Canadian Wood Council for a great night!

Will you be at the International Mass Timber Conference? It's the largest gathering of #masstimber experts in the world, and focuses on the entire industry supply chain. Come visit us at Booth 722 with HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER and let's talk timber. Can't wait to see you there! 🌟 IMTC SHOW DETAILS - Place: Oregon Convention Center, Portland - Booth #722, Exhibit Hall C & D - Date: March 25 - 27, 2025 See our show page for full info: https://lnkd.in/gTp76n9v #masstimberconference #IMTC25 #Element5