Brock Commons Tallwood House

Vancouver, Canada, North America

Completed · Residential · Tall Timber Student Residence · Temperate · 2017

An 18-storey mass timber student residence that was the world's tallest hybrid timber building at completion. It uses a cross-laminated timber and glulam superstructure atop two concrete cores, demonstrating that tall timber construction could meet code requirements at scale.

Innovation highlights

• 18-storey hybrid CLT and glulam superstructure
• prefabricated mass timber panels enabling 9-week structural erection
• concrete-encased mass timber connections for fire resistance without intumescent coating
• demonstrated tall timber viability under existing code frameworks

Client / Developer

University of British Columbia

Architect

Acton Ostry Architects

Engineer

Structurlam / Fast + Epp

Type

Tall Timber Student Residence

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