Element5 Co.

20/04/2026

🏆 Element5 Wins Mayor’s Choice Award 🏆We’re incredibly proud to share that Element5 has been awarded the Mayor’s Choice Award at the St. Thomas & District Chamber of Commerce IMPACT Awards.

👉🏼 Selected by municipal leaders, this award recognizes an organization making a meaningful impact across St. Thomas, Central Elgin, and Southwold. President & CEO Chris Latour accepted the honour on behalf of the team.

🎉The evening, hosted by the legendary Michael “Pinball” Clemons, was a true celebration of business and community excellence, with over 360 attendees cheering on this year’s finalists and winners.

♥️A huge thank you to the Chamber, and our community for this recognition, and congratulations to all the finalists and award recipients!

We’re proud to be building sustainable mass timber construction here in St. Thomas!



📷 Event photos by Shutter Studios

20/04/2026

16/04/2026

We were honoured to have Associate Minister of Forestry and Forest Products, Kevin Holland drop by our Element5/ HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER Booth at the Wood Convention!

Thank you, Minister, for your ongoing support, both for Element5 and for the broader advanced wood manufacturing sector across Ontario!

12/04/2026

📢 Vote for the TRCA in the OAA People’s Choice Awards! 📢 We’re proud that the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) Headquarters has been nominated for the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) People’s Choice Award, and you can help it win!

🏗️ This 85,000 sq. ft., 4-storey mass timber office building in Toronto is designed as a living laboratory for sustainable design, showcasing how natural materials and innovative engineering can deliver one of the most energy-efficient office buildings in North America.

🌲Element5 is proud to have supplied the CLT floors, walls and roof panels, while our parent company HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER supplied the Glulam beams, columns and braces.

Mass timber was central to the project’s low-carbon design and enabled extensive off-site prefabrication, improving both construction quality and efficiency.

👉 Show your support for sustainable design and mass timber. Vote here today! https://oaa.on.ca/2026-peoples-choice-award?l=en-us

Let’s help this incredible project take the top spot!
Voting ends 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.

👷🏽 PROJECT TEAM
Owner: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA)
Architects: ZAS Architects, Bucholz McEvoy Architects
General Contractor: Eastern Construction
Structural Engineer: RJC Engineers
Value Engineering, Connection Design: Ergodomus
Mass Timber suppliers: Element5 & HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER
Mass Timber Installer: Timmerman Timberworks Inc.

📷 Photos: Michael Moran

10/04/2026

📢 Project Update – Thunder Woman 📢 Mass Timber at the Heart of a Healing and Housing Project in Toronto

The Thunder Woman Healing Lodge is an 18,000 sq. ft., 6-storey transitional housing and healing facility designed to support formerly incarcerated Indigenous women as they reconnect with culture, community, and independence.

🌲The spectacular looking building's structure incorporates cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor and roof panels, along with Glulam beams and columns, creating a hybrid structural system that delivers both structural performance and architectural warmth.

👉Mass Timber and IPD Drive Efficiency
Element5 manufactured the mass timber elements were manufactured, and delivered them in sequence, enabling rapid, precise installation of the building’s structure while minimizing disruption on site.

🏗️ Through an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) approach, early collaboration between the architect, engineers, contractor, and Element5 engineers and designers optimized the design for manufacturing, logistics, and installation, improving efficiency and reducing project risk.

♥️Once complete, the building will include healing lodge programming spaces, transitional housing units, and wrap-around supports, creating a unique model that combines Indigenous healing traditions with modern sustainable construction.

🌟Projects like this demonstrate how mass timber can deliver more than just structural efficiency — it can help create spaces that are restorative, culturally meaningful, and community-focused.

👷🏽Project Team
Owner / Client: Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society
Development / Project Management: Assembly Corp.
General Contractor: Loftin Management
Architects: McCallum Sather in collaboration with Smoke Architecture Inc. & Susan Speigel Architect
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5
Mass Timber Erector: Fab Structures
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Mechanical Engineer: Hammerschlag & Joffe Inc.
Electrical Contractor: Birnie Electric Limited
IPD Facilitator: Stok

07/04/2026

📢 Element5 Expansion - LSTAR award winner! 📢 Last week the 2025 Don Smith Commercial Building Awards were handed out by the London and St. Thomas Association of REALTORS(r) (LSTAR) – recognizing the best commercial, industrial, multi-family and community buildings in the region.

We’re proud to share that Element5’s mass timber facility expansion in St. Thomas, Ontario won in the "Industrial" Category.

🏗️ Completed in September 2025, the project expanded our facility from 130,000 sq. ft. to 350,000 sq. ft., and added a fully automated Glulam production line, doubling our production capacity to 100,000 m³ of CLT and Glulam annually.

🌲The expansion also included a two-storey mass timber office, showcasing the beauty and performance of mass timber in action.

👏 A big thank you to the architects Tillmann Ruth Robinson, and partners who helped bring this award-winning project to life!

Element5 President & CEO Chris Latour spoke with 94.1 myFM about the award, and this became the most-read article on their site last week (which unfortunately can't be shared on Facebook).

Our expansion would not have been possible without the support of our parent company HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER, one of Europe’s largest and most innovative timber producers.

It was also supported with a loan from Invest Ontario. We are grateful for the continuing support from the province of Ontario.

Full list of winners here: https://lstar.ca/articles/winners-of-the-9th-biennial-don-smith-commercial-building-awards-announced

31/03/2026

📢 New Project Spotlight – Woodward Lofts, PA 📢 This 61,000 sq. ft., 4-storey, 48-unit affordable housing development for seniors in Harrisburg, is Pennsylvania’s first Mass Timber Tax Credit development.

🎥 This video walk-through highlights exposed mass timber elements in key spaces such as the lobby, elevator cores, and stair towers, bringing the warmth, beauty and performance of wood into everyday living environments.

🌲 Element5 is proud to be part of the team delivering this innovative project, supplying Glulam and cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor systems that form the backbone of a hybrid structure that combines mass timber with prefabricated panelized framing.

🏗️ This integrated approach:
- Reduced construction complexity
- Minimizes material waste
- Supported a faster, more efficient build schedule

The project has broken ground, and we look forward to seeing mass timber flying!

Kudos to the project team bringing high-quality housing using sustainable building practices to life!

👷🏽 Project Team
Owner/Developer: Latino Connection Foundation
Development Partner: Fernandez Realty Group
General Contractor: JEM Group, LLC
Architect: KMA Design Studio
Structural Engineering: DCI Engineers
Civil Engineering: Eustace Engineering
Consulting Engineer: McHugh Engineering Associates
BIM Coordination and Engineering Support: Woodcore Engineering:
Fabrication Partner/ Mass Timber Installer: Quality Buildings LLC
Sustainability Consultant: MaGrann Associates
Mass Timber supplier: Element5

Video credit courtesy of Interiors by KMA

27/03/2026

Frame 122 is a 31,000 sq. ft., 5-storey, 15-unit mass timber residential building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, made up 2 and 3-bedroom rental units.

The project was completed last year to great acclaim, and we're proud to be have been part of the team who put it together!

👉🏼 The project was the 1st mass timber multi-family building approved and constructed under the New York’s 2022 Building Code, an essential milestone for sustainable construction in dense urban contexts, and a great example of design practices for policy advocacy.

🌲Scope of work on this project by Element5 was: Cost consulting, Design Consulting, Pre-engineering Review, 3D Modelling, Structural Engineering (connection design), Coordination with steel, Fabrication of CLT and Glulam, Assembly and Delivery.

Metropolis Magazine takes a thoughtful look at the project and speaks to architect Brent Buck as well as tenants of the building.

Check out the video and read the full article at the link in the comments.

Our Element5 case study is here: https://elementfive.co/projects/frame122-waverly/

24/03/2026

📢 Project Update - Confederation Centre of the Arts (CCoA) 📢 Recently featured in WoodWorks "Wood Design & Building" magazine as a "project to watch", the CCOA's transformation is progressing on time and on budget!

Element5 is proud to be supplying the CLT and Glulam on this major infrastructure project.

🌟 Details of the Project
Recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada, the building is undergoing a $65M renovation that will include:
- a new mass timber library space
- a rooftop photovoltaic system
- a new theatre rehearsal space with CLT roof and floor panels and Glulam columns.

🌲 Glulam bridges and CLT structural elements will weave through the existing floors, introducing a barrier-free access route and adding warmth to the existing brutalist concrete heritage building.

For full project information, see: https://elementfive.co/projects/confederation-centre-of-the-arts-ccoa-revitalization-project/

👷🏽 Project Team
Client: Confederation Centre of the Arts
Architects: ABBOTT BROWN ARCHITECTSS
General Contractor: Brighton Construction
Structural/Civil Engineering: SCL Engineering
Mechanical Engineering: MCA Consultants
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5
Mass Timber Installer: Seagate Mass Timber Inc.
Rigging Supply: MTC Solutions

Completion is set for 2026.

17/03/2026

📢 Project Update – 60 Bowden 📢 8 storeys. 50 units. Built in just 41 working days.

🏗️ Element5 is proud to have supplied the mass timber for this innovative affordable housing project, helping bring much-needed homes for seniors to market faster.

🌲 Using 7-ply CLT floor and core panels and Glulam columns, our prefabricated system is enabling rapid, precise assembly on a tight urban site, all while reducing disruption and lowering embodied carbon.

👉🏼 The result? A high-performance building that combines speed, sustainability, and design flexibility, rising above the preserved façade of the historic Danforth Baptist Church.

Delivered in partnership with WoodGreen Community Services, this development shows how mass timber can scale to meet urgent housing needs.

HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER President and CEO Christoph Kulterer, Lee Scott, P. Eng, Element5 Director of Sales and Element5, and Dennis Bott, Element5 VP of Sales & Marketing recently got a tour of the project thanks to the fabulous Chris Loftin, GSC of Loftin Management.

Congratulations to the incredible project team!

👷🏽 Project Team
Client: WoodGreen Community Services
Developer / Design-Builder: Assembly Corp.
Architect: McCallum Sather
Heritage Architect: ERA Architects Architects Inc.
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).

12/03/2026

📢 Our TRCA project keeps racking up awards! The latest one is the 2025 Award of Excellence in Architecture from the AIA Canada Society! 📢

👉🏼 The head offices for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is a 85,000 sq.ft., 4-storey post-and-beam office building, that is a model of sustainability in action.

🏗 Element5 was proud to have supplied the cross-laminated mass timber ( ) floors and walls, while our parent company HASSLACHER NORICA TIMBER supplied the beams and columns.

This prestigious "Award of Excellence in Architecture" recognition is given to only one project each year, and the building will represent Canada in the International Societies category at the 2026 AIA Convention in San Diego, California.

Designed in collaboration with ZAS Architects, Bucholz McEvoy Architects and RJC Engineers - this LEED v4 Platinum, and Zero Carbon-certified facility shows a deep commitment to innovative and sustainable design.

Mass timber install was done by Timmerman Timberworks Inc.

Congratulations to the TRCA and the project team!

09/03/2026

📢 Project Update – Wardlaw Cres. Superstructure Complete 📢 In Toronto, a new 4-storey mass timber affordable housing building will deliver 51 units with wraparound supports for residents experiencing housing instability.

🌲 Element5 is proud to supply the structure for this supportive housing development. The prefabricated mass timber superstructure is now complete - helping the project move forward efficiently while supporting low-carbon construction and high-quality housing.

🏗️ The building will feature self-contained apartments with private bathrooms and kitchenettes, along with shared amenities including laundry facilities, a commercial kitchen, and programming spaces for residents.

⚡ Mass timber plays a key role in the project’s sustainability strategy. Built using locally manufactured Ontario timber, the structure supports reduced construction timelines, lower embodied carbon, and is Net-Zero-ready - designed to produce as much clean energy as it consumes.

❤️ The development is part of a collaborative approach to supportive housing, bringing together the City of Toronto and a network of community organizations to help residents build stability.

👷🏽 Project Team:
Client: City of Toronto
Design-Builder: Gillam
Architect: Montgomery Sisam Architects
Structural Engineer: Entuitive
Sustainability & Building Performance Consultant: Pratus Group
Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: Quasar Consulting Group
Operator: Youth Without Shelter (YWS)
Community Partners:
- Midaynta Community Services
- Rexdale Women's Centre
- Delta Family Resource Centre
- Albion Neighbourhood Services
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5