Part of the pilot program involved weighing the benefits of bringing the construction from Toronto Green Standard Tier 1 to Tier 3. This is in line with Toronto’s ambitious climate objectives, and far closer to those goals than concrete construction. The materials mean embodied carbon intensity would be reduced by more than 40%. Looking south to the subject site, image retrieved from Google Street ViewĬreateTO’s report highlights the many environmental benefits of mass timber. With more constrained sites such as these in urban markets, mass timber construction means developers can build in areas that would otherwise be unviable for conventional construction. Given the limited space of 1113-1117 Dundas Street West, a traditional concrete construction would have proved challenging. It was chosen in part for being ideal for being a mid-rise site with a typology favouring mass timber.īrock Commons at UBC Vancouver, an example of mass timber construction, image from submission to City of Toronto The site for the pilot project is 1113 through 1117 Dundas Street West, near the southeast corner with Ossington Avenue, which is just steps away from Trinity Bellwoods Park. Mid-rise typology for mass timber construction, image from submission to City of Toronto He shared with us the important policy objectives they focused on for this project that ideally everyone in the industry should strive for: “environmental benefits, more affordable housing, more housing in general.” UrbanToronto spoke with Vic Gupta, CEO at CreateTO, to learn more about this exciting pilot project. This use of mass timber, which includes engineered wood instead of steel or concrete, has the potential to be a transformative force in Toronto’s development scene. CreateTO is taking on a project that would tackle both with their mass timber pilot program that would create the city’s first timber residential building. Toronto’s housing crisis and the global climate crisis are major challenges that intertwine in more ways than first meets the eye.
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