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COURTESY MEMBERTOU FIRST NATION - As part of the Seventh Exchange, a new 32-acre retail and service district, Cape Breton’s Membertou First Nation is building a 92,000-square-foot mass timber office complex. Erected in 16-weeks, the five-storey structure was supplied Quebec-based Nordic Structures.
The mass timber design submitted by Dora Construction offered a green solution, quick erection and cost savings over concrete, he says. The mass timber structure consists of glulam columns and beams and cross-laminated floors. The elevator core is concrete block and the stairs are steel. With the tight tolerances required of the structural assembly, the team had to be “very accurate” with its concrete foundation and anchor bolt positioning, he says.Mass timber beams and columns are attached through a system of hidden metal plates connected with steel dowels.The erection met schedule, cutting months off the time a concrete building would have taken to construct, he adds.
COURTESY MEMBERTOU FIRST NATION – The mass timber structure consists of glulam columns and beams and cross-laminated floors. The elevator core is concrete block and the stairs are steel.Lalonde says Membertou “will try to avoid the use of foam plastics, PVC, vinyls…anything heavily dependent on fossil fuels for production” in the building’s design.
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