GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE — Acton Ostry Architects associate principal Milos Begovic presented the Here to Stay: Educational Projects in Mass Timber session during the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s annual conference held in Vancouver. One of the projects he highlighted was George Brown College’s Limberlost Place in Toronto.
Begovic said while mass timber allows for quicker construction, logistics and co-ordination have not yet caught up. Begovic said floor height restrictions for the Limberlost project due to overall height restrictions for the building necessitated using a flat floor system rather than drop beams and employing a hybrid timber and concrete system.
In the case of Limberlost Place the intention was to accelerate building and shorten the time between structural installation and woodwork, he said.