The affordable housing crisis isn’t about to go away, but there are some strategies municipalities can take to get more non-profit housing to market sooner and within a tight budget. When tackling design-build non-profit housing projects, cities need to
September 18, 2023
When tackling design-build non-profit housing projects, cities need to get “an aligned group” of consultants and key contractors to the pre-design table.Cities are “designing a building, getting it entitled with an architect and consultant, tendering it and then building it and getting killed on their costs,” Leith Moore, principal and co-founder R-Hauz, said at a panel seminar held at the Mass Timber Seminar Conference at George Brown College in Toronto recently.
Panellist Eli Miller, vice-president, project manager at Hullmark added mass timber construction “has a big part to play in drawing from manufacturing principles such as lean delivery…limiting the time of production to insulation, modular construction. It’s all part of a collective solution.” In developer Alexandra Khazzam’s experience, it can be advantageous to expose mass timber whereever possible.
Hines has done 27 T3 projects around the globe. It is nearing completion of T3 Bayside, a 10-storey mass timber office building on Toronto’s downtown waterfront, and it has other mass timber projects on the go in the city’s Junction neighbourhood. A T3 project in Atlanta by Hines experienced an unexpected “crazy rain storm,” resulting in unprotected timber bleaching and expanding.
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