Element5 Co.

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/

06/01/2026

📢 Element5 Project - Packer Collegiate Featured in Azure magazine 📢 We’re excited to see the Packer Collegiate Garden House Expansion recognized by Azure Magazine for its thoughtful use of mass timber in an educational setting—demonstrating how and can deliver high-performance, low-carbon design in dense urban contexts.

🏗️ Designed by WXY Architecture + Urban Design, this 3-storey, 17,250 sq. ft. expansion uses CLT floor systems with Glulam columns and beams in place of conventional concrete and steel, significantly reducing embodied carbon while creating warm, light-filled learning environments.

👉🏼 The mass timber addition sensitively expands a historic 19th-century brownstone campus, housing flexible classrooms, breakout spaces, offices, and support areas for Grades 1–4, proving that modern timber construction can integrate seamlessly with heritage architecture.

🌲 The result is a resilient, efficient, and biophilic school building that supports student well-being while setting a new benchmark for sustainable educational design in New York City.

❤️ Element5 is proud to have provided design-assist services and supplied the CLT and Glulam for this forward-thinking project.

At Brooklyn's Packer Collegiate Institute, WXY stretches out a 1869 brownstone with a mass timber addition.

05/01/2026

Our 1120 Ossington project keeps getting well-deserved recognition including being featured as one of Toronto's 7 beautiful new buildings in the Toronto Star!

👉🏼 This 3-storey building was assembled in just 17 days, significantly reducing waste, neighbourhood disruption, and overall cost, thanks to the CLT superstructure.

👉🏼 In less than a year after breaking ground, residents were able to move in to the 25 new units.

🌟The project went up so quickly thanks to using:
- Prefabricated 3-play cross-laminated timber ( )
- Pre-assembled kitchen and bathroom pods
- Slab-on grade foundation with no basement, which minimized concrete.

🌲 This L-shaped building was put up in a tight infill site that was formerly a parking lot. Efficiency, cost and speed to assemble using our CLT are just some of the benefits of using mass timber as building material.

👏🏼 Congratulations to forward-thinking client St.Clare's Multifaith Housing Society and the whole project team!

👷🏽 PROJECT TEAM
Architecture & Planning: Smart Density
Project Delivery: Assembly Corp.
Architect of Record: mcCallumSather
General Contractor: Loftin Management
Structural Engineer: ASPECT Structural Engineers
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5
Mass Timber Installer: The Contract Framing Group Inc.

This project was funding in part by the CMHC Rapid Housing Initiative.

You can real our full case study on 1120 Ossington here: https://elementfive.co/projects/1120-ossington-affordable-housing/

02/01/2026

📢 Project Update - the new Cambridge Recreation Complex & Library is taking shape! 📢 This 112,000 sq. ft. multi-purpose community facility brings recreation, learning, and public gathering spaces together under one roof.

🌲 Element5 is proud to supply the and for this steel and mass timber hybrid building. The mass timber allows large spans, rapid installation, and reduced disruption during construction while also providing warmth and enhancing architectural expression.

👉🏼 The complex includes a wide range of community amenities including:
-10-lane, 25m competition pool
- Warm-water leisure and therapy pool
- 3 FIBA-certified gymnasiums
- Running/walking track and fitness rooms
- Multi-purpose and community program rooms
- Concession area and administrative spaces
- A new 12,600 sq. ft. Cambridge Public Library branch with study rooms, program areas, a reading garden, and views to the landscaped courtyard.

♻️ This landmark project is designed to meet ambitious sustainability and performance goals, including LEED Gold and Net-Zero Carbon aspirations.

Set to open in Fall 2026, this project demonstrates how mass timber can deliver high-performance, resilient civic infrastructure at scale.

👷🏼 PROJECT TEAM:
Architects: MJMA Architecture & Design
General Contractor: Melloul-Blamey Construction
Civil Engineering: WalterFedy
Mass Timber Supplier: Element5
Mass Timber Installer: The Contract Framing Group Inc.