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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
How to Integrate Mass Timber into Hybrid Buildings
Oregon Ballroom 203Moderator:
Bakers Place: A 14-Story Mass Timber Hybrid Building
Bakers Place is a high-rise residential project in Madison, Wisconsin, developed by Neutral and slated to be completed later this year. The building will total 164,707 rentable square feet and will offer studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units, as well as approximately 8,400 square feet of complementary retail space.
Above the three-story concrete podium, many structural options were considered for the gravity system including full mass timber, CLT-CFS loadbearing walls, and the steel-glulam-CLT hybrid system that was ultimately used. Similarly, options for concrete shear walls, steel braced frames, and even glulam braced frames were considered for the vertical lateral force resisting system. We eventually settled on steel braced frames.
In this session, we will discuss the decision-making process that led to the solutions used on the project and lessons learned. Additionally, results from a corresponding study that evaluates multiple alternative structural schemes for the project including full mass timber, hybrid, concrete, and others will be presented. Schemes were compared against each other for cost, speed of construction, and embodied carbon.
Angus-Young is the AOR/EOR; CD Smith is the general contractor; MGA is the design architect; EQUILIBRIUM is the concept and mass timber engineer.
Beamless and Seamless: Challenges and Benefits of George Brown College's 10-Story Hybrid Timber Concrete Composite (TCC) Panel System
Limberlost Place at George Brown College’s waterfront campus in Toronto will house their schools of Architectural and Computer Studies. This innovative building has won over 20 national and international design awards, including four specific to the innovative TCC slab band systems.
Phil Silverstein, Principal at Moriyama Teshima Architects, will discuss the development and integration of the hybrid system with building elements such as interior finishes, envelope systems, and the steel core. He will demonstrate how this innovation enhances beauty and resiliency through its beamless structural approach.
BCIT Tall Timber
In collaboration with F&EPP, this presentation explores a very successful project that includes concrete, steel cores, large format facade panels, and Hempfir CLT panels.
