Global Perspectives: Mass Timber

Beyond 2022 – A Future-Focused Discussion

Reza Farimani

Vice President, Construction, Hines

June 15, 2022 from 12:00pm-1:00pm EST

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Jennifer Cover

President & CEO, WoodWorks

Kevin Naranjo

National Wood Innovations Program Manager, U.S. Forest Service

Tim Gokhman

Managing Director, New Land Enterprises

Tanya Luthi

Vice President – Structures, Entuitive

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Jonathan Hendricks: New Territories in Hong Kong because of the high density around the stations that trickles down and because of the great access to green space nearby.

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Richard Morden: Eau Claire in Calgary because it is well situated in the Eau Claire Market area, with the current approved design providing an opportunity to integrate the buildings with the station. Trains will be kept underground, communities will stay connected, and the streets will stay open.

Megan Rhind: Yonge-Eglinton Station in Toronto because of the personal connection – she commuted through it every day for years and because of the professional connection – Entuitive provided the underpinning for the station.

Brad Smid: West Block Glenora in Edmonton because it’s the first project in Edmonton where the land use and transit plans were truly integrated, and it is now becoming a reality.

Brent Toderian: Collingwood Village in Vancouver because it’s a first-generation TOD that has seen a couple generations of evolution. There’s been development around it since it was built and can be considered a successful TOD.

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“The conversation about smart transit planning and development is now about every form of good/better transit, not just TODs” – Brent Toderian

“Problems surrounding today’s TODs include the fact that transit investment is under attack across Canada; we’re still using car-driven modelling to study areas around transit, which drives down density; and NIMBYism (not in my back yard)” – Brent Toderian

“TODs that fail often fail because of too much reliance on retail, failure to measure, faith in mega-scale projects, fear of challenging transportation departments, and an inability to hold the plan” – Gary Andrishak

“A successful TOD needs vision, needs enthusiasm, needs serendipity, needs positive responses with regard to land use, built form, open space, and proximity to services” – Gary Andrishak

“Autonomous vehicles could threaten the “location, location” mantra and favour urban sprawl” – Gary Andrishak

“In Edmonton, the goal is to create a safe, vibrant, healthy, resilient city. It’s about growing the right way.” – Brad Smid

“To build successful TODs three challenges need to be overcome – you need supportive and enabling policy frameworks, you need transit infrastructure, and you need supportive markets.” – Brad Smid

“TODs must provide for an urban sense of place. This goal must drive the design of station design and integration of all infrastructure.” – Richard Morden

“It’s important to recognize that there’s an opportunity cost in every decision that cities and planners make when it comes to transit stations.” – Richard Morden

“There’s no ‘e’ in TOD but to me the ‘e’ stands for ‘ecosystem’ – balance is required, I believe a successful TOD site marries a high-quality transit line and stations that are integrated with and face the neighbourhood. It’s important to take down fences, remove silos and involve integration between planners, engineers and budget – that’s how you get to the ecosystem of a successful TOD.” – Richard Morden

“When it comes to TODs, it’s not just about the stations. It’s about the nodes and the corridors. We have to look at it all.” – Jonathan Hendricks

“Each site has its own right solution and technical challenges can be solved. What we need are the right stakeholders at the table so that solutions can be reasonable and therefore affordable.” – Jonathan Hendricks

“We need to take down fences, remove the silos and work together to improve efficiency and reduce risk.” – Megan Rhind

“The owners, the designers, the planners, and the contractors need to be at the same table. Construction Engineering helps to bridge the gap between designers and contractors.” – Megan Rhind

Gary Andrishak: Union Station in Denver because it provides high-level transit and is a great development, mixing the old and the new. It’s an excellent example of placemaking and has some interesting dining options, too. It’s a destination.

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In our second Global Perspectives event of the year, VP Tanya Luthi will moderate an expert panel discussion focused on uncovering the latest trends and most innovative ideas that are propelling mass timber forward. Specifically, we’ll look at:

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State of the union – a quick recap on where we’re at in 2022 across the globe Research & development – from shake table tests to fire testing Design innovation – do we need to rethink the assumptions we hold after decades of designing in steel and concrete? How tall can we (and should we) build? What about trends and end user preferences? Sustainability and embodied carbon – legislation related to sustainability and what role mass timber can play in a more sustainable future

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Reza Fairmani is the Vice President of Construction at Hines, focusing on the development of commercial, residential and industrial projects in the northeast region.

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Jennifer Cover is the President and CEO of WoodWorks – Wood Products Council, a nonprofit program providing no-cost project design support and education to the design and construction community seeking to build commercial and multifamily projects with wood solutions. The objective of the program is to make it easier to design, engineer and construct buildings utilizing innovative wood materials such as mass timber that deliver high performance for similar cost to more traditional non-wood alternatives. WoodWorks is a strong partner of the U.S. Forest Service, helping advance many of the Forest Service goals. Ms. Cover has been with the WoodWorks program since it was established fifteen years ago and took on the role of leading the program nine years ago. She is a California licensed professional engineer and her experience includes business development, market analysis, project management and structural design, all with an emphasis on wood construction. She has an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Structural Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.

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I have worked with the USDA Forest Service for 11 years. I am in the Washington Office, Cooperative Forestry, Wood Innovations Program working with the National Forests, state and private forestry, university and industry partners to help expand wood product markets, with a primary focus on growing markets for mass timber. I manage the Wood Innovations Grant program and the sharing of wood product and energy resource knowledge through collaborative relationships. I have 21 years of leadership and management experience working in the private sector and in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. I have a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and a MS in in Environmental Management from American Public University.

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Tim Gokhman is the managing director of New Land Enterprises – a pioneering real estate development firm specializing in mixed-use residential and commercial real estate. Founded in 1993, New Land has developed ~$600M across 27 projects. New Land currently owns and manages over 1,600 apartments and ~200,000 SF of commercial space. The firm adheres to a disciplined differentiation development philosophy, using new materials, technologies, and end-user informed designs to set its buildings apart. New Land excels at creating built environments at the neighborhood scale, striving to curate memorable spaces focused on the user experience. We believe that cities thrive when they are diverse, walkable, and culturally vibrant. In addition to bringing over 2,000 new housing units to market, New Land developed Milwaukee’s first micro-unit apartment building, helped create Black Cat Alley (a defunct alley turned public arts space), concepted and operate Crossroads Collective (Milwaukee’s first food hall), and facilitated permanent operations of the Milwaukee Film Festival to the Oriental Theater, a nationally recognized movie palace on the National Register of Historic Places. New Land has innovated the use of light gauge steel in multi-family high rise construction, the use of radiant hydronic heating, and most recently, mass timber. The firm is finishing Ascent, set to be the world’s tallest mass timber building, and is also building a $67.6M opportunity zone development called Nova.

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Tanya Luthi is a Vice President at Entuitive with 15 years of experience in the structural engineering industry. She began her career in New York City, focused on large-scale institutional projects in steel and concrete. Her work includes the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia as well as renovation and new construction projects at the NYU Langone Medical Center. After moving to Vancouver in 2011, she discovered a love for mass timber design, fueled by her work on the Mountain Equipment Co-op head office building, one of the largest contemporary mass timber buildings in Canada. Based on this experience, she co-authored the US and Canadian Nail-Laminated Timber Design and Construction Guides, and she began speaking widely on the topic of mass timber to both students and industry professionals.

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