BC allowed 18-storey encapsulated mass timber construction in 2024. Ontario followed a year later. Codes move province by province before they move nationally. Manitoba projects should plan around that lag, not against it.
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New CLT and glulam capacity has opened across BC, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec in the past year. More domestic supply does not fix a bad shop drawing. Precision still gets decided before material ever leaves the plant.
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Manitoba has 18 months to fold the 2025 National Building Code into local law. Every mass timber shop building today should already be building to where the code is headed, not where it sits now.
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Mass timber under 18 storeys in Canada now needs 70 minutes of encapsulation, up from 50 at 12 storeys. More code, not less, as height increases. The fire myth was never about whether the code allows it. It was about people not reading the code.
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Zero waste in a fabrication shop is not a values statement. It is shavings going to livestock bedding and wood waste going to heat instead of a landfill. Verifiable, not aspirational.
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Federal Buy Canadian policy is pushing procurement toward domestic wood products this year. For fabricators working both sides of the Manitoba and Minnesota border, that is a real shift in who gets specified first, not background noise.
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The contractor quote worth remembering from Saskatchewan this year: most of what arrived on site was already finished. Fewer trades, less rework, fewer surprises. None of that happens if the fabricator gets involved after design is locked.
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Canada's mass timber sector is targeting $1.2 billion in market value by 2030 and $2.4 billion by 2035. Those are not projections from a marketing deck. They are the numbers behind why capacity is expanding on the Prairies right now.
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"Mass timber is still niche in Canada" is getting harder to say with a straight face. Close to 700 mass timber buildings are complete across the country, with over 140 more under construction or in planning.
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Ottawa put close to $130 million behind 56 forest sector projects this June, with mass timber and low carbon wood tech named priorities. That is what demand looks like before it shows up in an RFP.
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A Saskatchewan contractor building with mass timber for the first time this year said the shift from steel and precast was simple, with one exception. Mass timber leaves far less room for adjustment on site. That is not a weakness. That is the point.
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The Mass Timber Summit runs in Denver August 19 to 21. Worth watching who shows up in person versus who just posts about it. The real signal in this industry still comes from project teams in a room, not from feed impressions.
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US single family housing starts fell to their weakest level since the pandemic recovery, tariffs are part of that story. Commercial mass timber does not run on the same cost pressures as stick frame residential. Different material, different math.
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Canada is pushing softwood lumber onto the table in trade talks with the US, alongside steel and aluminum. Any fabricator working both sides of the border should treat sourcing decisions this year as a moving target, not a fixed input.
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Swinerton's Timberlab topped out a 192,000 square foot mass timber facility in Oregon this year, one of the largest of its kind. Scale like that only happens when the shop drawings were locked long before anything shipped.
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IWF 2026 is running its first dedicated mass timber and prefab showcase, more than 60 exhibitors deep. CNC routers, panel presses, optimizing saws. The machinery on that floor is the real story. The material is downstream of it.
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Michigan State just released a mass timber resource guide alongside the state DNR. When a forestry department and a university co-publish a how-to guide, that is a market signal, not an academic exercise.
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