Element5 Co.

24/02/2026

📢 Project Update – Globeville Affordable Housing 📢 Ground has broken and construction has begun on this 250,000 sq. ft., 5-storey, mixed-use mass timber community hub in Denver.

🏗️ Globeville is the largest project in North America and will transform a city-owned parcel and former car dealership site into a multi-generational community hub.

👉🏼 Most importantly, the project will provide 170 affordable units, a new Denver Public Library branch, a community café, and more than 50,000 sq. ft. of landscaped green space.

Structurally, 4 storeys of cross-laminated timber ( ) will rise above a concrete podium that anchors civic and public spaces at grade. This hybrid approach reflects the neighborhood’s industrial heritage while creating a warm, healthy, low-carbon living environment above.

🌲Element5 is proud to be supporting the project through digital modelling and DfMA collaboration, as well as supplying CLT panels and Glulam columns and beams.

👷🏽 Project Team
Owners / Co-Developers:
• Evergreen Real Estate Group
• Rocky Mountain Communities
• GES Coalition

General Contractors:
• Milender White
• Gilmore Construction Corporation

Design Architect: John Ronan Architects
Architect of Record: ej architecture, pllc.
Structural Engineer: KL&A
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5

23/02/2026

📢 Project Update – 35 Bellevue 📢 Even with the snowstorms, construction is moving full-speed ahead on this 4-storey , project in the heart of Kensington Market in Toronto. Cranes are onsite and installing CLT panels as the building takes shape.

🏗️ Designed to deliver 78 deeply affordable apartments with shared amenities and rent geared to income, this project puts people and community first.

🌲 Element5 is proud to support this initiative as the mass timber supplier, helping deliver a lower-carbon, high-performance building aligned with the City of Toronto’s TransformTO Net Zero Strategy.

👉🏼 You can see from the photos how dense the area is where the building is going up – offsite construction and mass timber are perfectly suited for these types of infill sites. What used to be a parking lot, is being transformed into housing - faster, greener, and with lasting impact.

In fact, Montgomery Sisam Architects chose a CLT superstructure (floors, roof, exterior walls) in part because it can be erected by a single trade in weeks, rather than the months required for conventional concrete construction.

Once complete, 35 Bellevue will provide stable, dignified homes and wraparound supports. showing how innovative construction can help address both the housing and climate crises.

👏🏼 We’re proud to be part of this transformative project with our partners on the project team.

👷 Project Team
Developers: St. Clare’s Multifaith Housing Society, KKensington Market Community Land Trust City of Toronto
Builder: GGillam Architect: Montgomery Sisam Architects
Engineering: MMTE Consultants TThornton Tomasetti Mass Timber Supplier: Element5

16/02/2026

📢 We're thrilled to have been nominated as a finalist for the Mayor's Choice Award in the St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce's Impact Awards! 📢

🌟 This distinguished award honours a business, organization, or individual who has made an extraordinary impact on our community.

🏆 Mayors’ Choice Award Finalists

Nominated by the Mayors of St. Thomas, Central Elgin, and Southwold, the finalists embody leadership, service, and dedication that strengthen the social and economic well-being of our region.

- Mike Choi - Country Grocery Inc.
- Element5
- New Sarum Diner

We are truly honored to be included in this year’s nominations alongside so many fantastic companies.

We are also thankful to St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce and our community for the continued support!

12/02/2026

📢 Come visit us at in Orlando! 📢 Element5 and the HASSLACHER group will be at the NAHB The International Builders' Show next week.

👉🏼 The International Builders' Show® (IBS) is the largest annual light construction show in the world, and brings 70,000+ industry pros from 100+ countries, 1,700+ top companies and brands and 120+ education sessions to Orlando.

It’s a chance for attendees to explore the latest products, connect with the best in the business and gain insights not found anywhere else.

🌟 IBS DETAILS
- Show takes place February 17 - 19
- Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Orlando, FL
- Element5 and HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER will be at Booth W6458 (in the Building Materials section of the West Hall)

Come by and say hi and let's talk !

09/02/2026

📢 Nice feature on the "Tall Timber: The Future of Cities in Wood" exhibit, currently on display in downtown Detroit. 📢 The show has recently been extended to March 4, 2026.

🏗️ The exhibit introduces to the general public, leaders, and decision-makers, and deepens engagement by practitioners through architectural models, material samples, videos, drawings, and photography that present some of the most interesting, innovative, and beautiful examples of buildings conceived in this new system of design and construction.

♥️ We're proud to have 3 of our mass timber projects featured in the show:
- Griffith Veterinary Hospital, in Westland, Michigan
- Mitchell Elementary Public School, in Ann Arbor Michigan
- KRESA Career Connect Campus, in Kalamazoo, Michigan

Full Details of the exhibit here: https://www.canr.msu.edu/masstimber/Events-and-Trainings/tall-timber

👏 The exhibit is hosted by the good folks at Mass Timber at MSU and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

01/02/2026

📢 Project Update – 60 Bowden St. 📢 Terrific to see continued progress on site of the Danforth Baptist Church re-development into a 50-unit, 8-storey building.

🎥 See the action in this construction video from our partners Loftin Management.

🌲 Exposed columns and 7-ply panels (supplied by Element5), are now clearly defining the building’s form as the structure rises floor by floor.

🏗️ This adaptive-reuse project preserves the historic church façade and twin towers, while the mass timber mass timber structure enables rapid installation and reduces site disruption.

🌟 The building will provide affordable studio and 1-bedroom apartments exclusively for residents aged 59 and older - one of the fastest-growing populations in need of affordable housing.

♥️ Owned and operated by WoodGreen Community Services, the project will offer resident with access to wraparound services, including personal support workers, social workers, specialists, transportation services, recreational programs, and shared amenity spaces designed to promote well-being and community connection.

👷🏽 Project Team
Client: WoodGreen Community Services
Developer / Design-Builder: Assembly Corp.
Architect: McCallum Sather
Heritage Architect: ERA Architects
General Contractor: Loftin Management
Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Envelope: Fab Structures
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5
Install of all wood systems: Timber Panel Group Inc.

The project is supported by the City of Toronto and the Government of Canada’s Rapid Housing Initiative (RHI).

22/01/2026

We are thrilled to be nominated for the Mayor's Choice award!

🏅 Mayors’ Choice Award Finalists 🏅
This distinguished award honours a business, organization, or individual who has made an extraordinary impact on our community.

Nominated by the Mayors of St. Thomas, Central Elgin, and Southwold, these finalists embody leadership, service, and dedication that strengthen the social and economic well-being of our region.

🌟 Mike Choi - Country Grocery Inc.
🌟 Element5
🌟 New Sarum Diner

21/01/2026

📢 Element5 2025 Wrapped 📢 As we look back on 2025, we’re proud of what 2025 represented-> growth, collaboration, and real momentum for across North America.

📊 2025 by the numbers for Element5
• 60 mass timber projects completed
• 9 design-assist partnerships
• Our facility expanded to 350,000+ sq. ft. from 130,000 sq. ft.
• Our team grew to 200 talented people

🏗️ This year also marked a major milestone with the $107M expansion of our St. Thomas facility, including the launch of a new state-of-the-art Glulam production line—doubling our annual mass timber capacity to 100,000 m³.

👉 From affordable housing and schools to civic, commercial, and institutional projects, 2025 was our busiest year yet, spanning 5 Canadian provinces, 9 U.S. states, and 2 countries.

❤️ None of this happens without our incredible team, project partners, and clients. Thank you for trusting us to help deliver high-performance, low-carbon buildings - built from wood, and built to last.

Here’s to continued collaboration and impact in 2026, and thanks as always to our parent company HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER.

20/01/2026

Element5's Director of Sales Lee Scott, will be speaking at Michigan morning this Friday, Jan 23 from 8:30 - 9:30 AM, with a spotlight on the Mitchell Elementary School project in Ann Arbor.

🏗 The Mitchell school is a hybrid steel and mass timber structure, where floor and wall panels (supplied by Element5), were selected to support both performance and student well-being.

👉In Friday's panel, we'll dive deeper into the project to share insights on design and construction, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and lessons learned.

Joining Lee on the panel are:
- Jeffrey L. Winslow, Senior Project Manager, Neumann/Smith Architecture
- Mark Stevenson, Senior Associate, IMEG
- Ellen Duff, Senior Designer, Fielding International

🌲 Hosted by Mass Timber at MSU, Michigan Mass Timber Mornings highlight real-world mass timber projects from across the state. The events take place in amidst the Tall Timber exhibit in Detroit!

🌟 The event is open to all and FREE to attend! 🌟

15/01/2026

📢 Case Study for Element5 project 📢 This 4-storey, 41-unit, 23,000 sq. ft., supportive housing building for the YWCA was our very first mass timber affordable housing project.

It was such a success that the Schulich School of Business - York University has just released an in-depth case study on it.

👉 To quote the study: "41 homes. 12 months. A model for Canada. This case study explores how the model works—and why it’s worth replicating across Canada."

❤️ Within one year from the date of receiving funding, 41 women experiencing homelessness within the Waterloo, Ontario region moved into their brand-new homes, despite pandemic-era constraints.

🏆 A multi-award-winning project and occupied for over two years, the effort demonstrates how strong partnerships, policy enablement, design-build delivery and mass timber construction can deliver affordable housing quickly and effectively.

🌟Project Details 🌟
- The structure is made entirely out of mass timber (primarily with some ), including floors, demising walls, roof, elevator shafts, stairwells and exterior walls.
- The structure was fully assembled in only 20 days.
- Each unit has exposed mass timber, imparting a sense of warmth and well-being.

🏗 This modular delivery method, where building components are factory-built and then rapidly assembled on site, offered cost savings over a strictly site-built project.

Since this first project was completed in 2022, Element5 has become a leader in the mass timber affordable housing space, having completed 13 projects to-date, with 10 more either in construction or development.

🔗 Read the study -> "Accelerated Supportive Housing Through Innovative and Strategic Partnerships": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5930934

cc McCallum Sather, YWCA KW

09/01/2026

📢 Element5 Project Spotlight – TRCA featured in BlogTO's "5 Most Gorgeous Buildings Completed in Toronto in 2025" 📢 We're proud that our Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) project was featured in this round-up of favorite new buildings completed in Toronto.

👉🏼 This 85,000 sq. ft., 4-storey mass timber post-and-beam office building is a model of sustainability in action, and it’s already a multi award-winner!

🏗 Element5 was proud to have supplied the cross-laminated mass timber ( ) floors and walls, beams, columns and braces.

Congratulations to the project team - ZAS Architects, Bucholz McEvoy Architects and RJC Engineers!

🔗 We can't share the article, because of Facebook, but you can read the full case study of the TRCA here: https://elementfive.co/projects/toronto-and-region-conservation-authority-trca/

09/01/2026

📢 Element5 Project Spotlight – TRCA featured in BlogTO's "5 Most Gorgeous Buildings Completed in Toronto in 2025" 📢 We're proud that our Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) project was featured in this round-up of favorite new buildings completed in Toronto.

👉🏼 This 85,000 sq. ft., 4-storey mass timber post-and-beam office building is a model of sustainability in action, and it’s already a multi award-winner!

🏗 Element5 was proud to have supplied the cross-laminated mass timber ( ) floors and walls, hashtag beams, columns and braces.

Congratulations to the project team - ZAS Architects, Bucholz McEvoy Architects and RJC Engineers!

🔗 Read the BlogTO article here: https://www.blogto.com/real-estate-toronto/2025/12/best-new-toronto-buildings-2025/