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UBC Brock Commons Tall Wood to Be 53m - 18 Stories

1/10/2014

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The first board of governors meeting  for review of the UBC Tall Wood project at Brock Commons meets today, October 1st, to cover the 3 main architectural teams bidding on the nearly $40 million, 16-18 story student housing project.  The building is slated to be the tallest wood based building in the world if the project goes ahead as planned being roughly 53m in height. The building will be home to some 383 student housing beds with a total gross square footage of approximately 156,840 sqft (14,570 m^2).

The tall wood project could potentially have a rectilinear shape  due to the site layout. This will produce significant engineering challenges to ensure stability of the tall structure. It would be very interesting to see the various proposals and how each undertakes this world first project. A grant of up to $4 million from the Canadian Wood Council has gone into help fund this project, which may make it more difficult for foreign suppliers to be successful in the bidding stages. The project is also specified to meet a minimum of LEED Gold certification.

What timber technologies do you think will play a major role in the development of this project?

Proposed building site below:

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