Mass Timber Market Updates - June 2025 - Week TwentyThree

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Let's have a look at what's making news around the world this week in mass timber construction , land and collective marquee launches a missing middle rental portfolio with Danforth application Collective , marquee Developments has been submitting a zoning by law amendment application to the City of Toronto for 2720 to 2734 Danforth Avenue .

For 2720-2734 Danforth Avenue , where an eight-story mid-rise building will be introduced with 64 purpose-built rental suites in East Danforth neighborhood , the design by local architects proposes to provide the first of the missing middle projects planned for the Toronto area in partnership with the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation .

The development would rise in the east of Main Street , within walking distance of Danforth , go and Main Street's stations . Gleck Dev Marquis looks at delivering the mid-rise density through factory-built construction methods using mass timber as a primary building element .

All five buildings are designed as purpose-built rentals , with at least 10% of the units secured as affordable for 99 years . Go well on this project . It's going to be an important step forward for affordable housing using mass timber in this space . Congratulations to the team involved . You can head to the LinkedIn feed to check out all the details

. And cullinan studios has added a timber framed extension to maggie's newcastle over 10 years after the practice completed the original scheme . Maggie's newcastle is in the grounds of the city's freeman hospital and designed by ted cullinan back in Cullinan Studios in 2013 .

To boost capacity , maggie's asked Cullinan Studios to add a new annex to the main building with the same material palette and rhythm of the existing centre . The extension consists of large , multi-purpose rooms with two small rooms , has its own entrance route , completing the third side of the courtyard to provide additional shelter .

Completing the third side of the courtyard to provide additional shelter . Design is to be set out in the same grid and the structure has mass timber frame instead of a traditional concrete one , which then gives it a lighter structural weight capacity , allowing for less foundations , and thus soil removed is less , bringing cost savings down .

A great initiative by all involved on the project . If you like to have a look at this innovative extension to the existing project , you can head to you know where . Don't normally promote too many organizations on

the podcast . We normally talk about projects , but this has to be a significant milestones for sarah construction in austral , australia , for the Adelaide Aquatic Centre , and specifically the materials that came from Harschlaka , norica timber and Hess timber that were produced in Europe and shipped all the way to Australia .

There was 324 cubic meters of glulam and 108 cubic meters of CLT , for a total of 3,130 meters squared of prefabricated acoustic ceilings and modules that were delivered to Australia . They had a length of 37 meters . These glulam were shipped in break bolt and arrived in Melbourne and then were assembled fully on site .

What's really impressive is there is a video that shows you a behind the scenes of how these particular elements got shipped and arrived in Australia . If you'd like to check out that video , you can go to our LinkedIn feed .

In 2018 , I had the pleasure of going to the US to go to the Trump Factory T-R-U-M-P-F , and now we are showcasing a project that was completed in 2024 for a 40,000 square foot building using mass timber elements as the primary vehicle , mainly glulam for this particular project

. The organization has a mass timber belt education center that the company uses , where it provides clientele and visitors an overview of how it produces its equipment and its integration between all of the facets within its manufacturing environment .

Although Trump's headquarters is in a little village , it's hard to miss this when you're speeding down the Autobahn just outside Stuttgart in Germany . It's hidden in the thick row of trees , and the new education center has been created as a focal point for the campus under a radial roof structure .

I've put the designs and some photos that are very impressive of this new education center for Trump . You can go and check it out for yourself , and we all know that over the summer period , california and its local hills were razed by fire .

Now we have super bungalows in Los Angeles . These are radically reconsidered housing options using panelized building components made of mass timber , and they are used to construct building in the super la , a design and development firm that comes to the views of homes as products rather than bespoke architectural projects . Called super bungalows .

On marathon , the nine unit apartment building is located on the slope of Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood . It's a hybrid system of mass timber and light timber framing , and it's constructed for the first time using a system that can be used to provide multifamily projects in Southern California .

According to a press release , you can have a look at this amazing super bungalows if you head to our LinkedIn feed . So that's it , folks . That's all we've got time for this week in mass timber construction land . I hope you have a great

week ahead . We look forward to catching up with you next week for more projects , innovative projects from around the world . Don't forget to like , subscribe , share , comment , repost anything on our social media platforms , and thank you for tuning into this podcast . Each week , we enjoy bringing you the news .

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Good morning , good afternoon or good evening , wherever you are in the world today , this is Paul Kramer signing off on the Mass Timber Construction Podcast . Thank you .