District 56 Tallwood 1

Langford, BC

Tallwood 1 is celebrated as the first tall mass timber building on Vancouver Island, the first Encapsulated Mass Timber Construction (EMTC) building that meets the BC Building Code, and is the second tallest wood building in all of Canada.

This 12-storey residential building consists of 11 storeys of residential units on a 1-storey concrete podium commercial space and a 2 level concrete underground parkade. The mass timber structure is a streamlined and efficient point-supported CLT floor plate on glulam columns, allowing easy integration with MEP services. The building is located in Langford, BC, one of Canada’s highest seismic regions. As such, the lateral system chosen is highly ductile eccentrically-braced steel frames, which achieve greater construction speeds than conventional reinforced concrete shear walls, with a significantly reduced embodied carbon content.

DesignDB Services ArchitectJack James Architect StatusConstruction