Back by popular demand: Connect with the Mass Timber Experts @ Ingenium 2021 Learn about Mass Timber Building Case Studies with Jack Keays. When: Friday, October 29, 2021 - 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm CST. This presentation discusses a series of projects, including 1475...
Mass timber installation near completion at our project, a new memory care building, located at 1475 Molson Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Vortex Fire served as the Building Code - Mass Timber consultant for this project. Partnership with: Bird Construction MMP...
Mass Timber Goes High-Tech Mass timber is a new category of wood product that can transform how America builds, supporting a low carbon future for the built environment. This spring, Think Wood and WoodWorks are releasing their first-ever Mass Timber Design Manual, a...
Wood is a low-cost, efficient, and renewable structural material. Today, light wood frame is commonplace in construction up to six storeys tall, but code restrictions have not allowed taller wood buildings—until recently. In Canada’s 2020 National Building Code, a...
With mass timber gaining acceptance for a new breed of midrise buildings, often coined “the missing middle,” architects and code consultants face hurdles getting building permit approvals for designs that don’t fit with convention. At a recent webinar hosted by Wood...
Mass timber buildings have experienced a spike in popularity among designers and developers. Toronto has seen mass timber as the chosen sustainable material for residential and commercial projects. These projects are intended to address market demands for sustainable...
The first wave of mass timber buildings are starting to come to fruition. Toronto has seen mass timber as the chosen sustainable material for residential and commercial projects. These projects are intended to address market demands for sustainable buildings and the...
Check out Vortex Fire's profile on UrbanToronto.ca, featuring some of our projects in the GTA.
Getting started with mass timber? Want to know more about the structural systems? This is the workshop for you! Come by and meet our Vortex Fire team and learn more from our Building Code Consultants about how we can help with your mass timber projects! We are the...
Highlights of some of the recent OBC changes that came into effect on 01 January, 2020. Happy to walk you through it. Give us a call!