Delivering affordable homes
by making Mass Timber accessible - locally
Building with Mass Timber is fast, less labour intensive, more predictable and less disruptive. It delivers significant cost and efficiency gains by compressing the build programme, which is especially relevant where building opportunity windows are tight, or asset monetization gains can be achieved through faster turnkey delivery.
Building with Mass Timber can significantly contribute to lowering the footprint of embodied and operational carbon in the built environment sector which is the single largest contributor to Green House Gases.
What we do
CLT Center specializes in micro plant CLT manufacturing and processing facilities that can deliver off site manufactured mass timber kit element construction.
Through the provision of market tried and tested technologies from Europe we provide production solutions that can be quickly implemented at a much lower capex to the larger scale Mass Timber plants.
Our offering is designed to address the high demand for sustainable, affordable living environments locally, employing the medium of mass timber which is codified in North America and well proven in buildings large and small around the world.
What differentiates us
The forest products industry has always sought to value engineer the fibre that is available to it and find new ways and methods to take a tree apart and put it back together, to deliver optimized log utilization and enhanced performance from this valuable natural and renewable resource.
The Mass Timber building system is an extension of this and combines CLT + Glulam further extending to hybrid solutions combining stick frame and steel and is now set to become a mainstream global sustainable method of construction within the next decade. This rapidly emerging new building system has evolved from humble beginnings and grown from small or micro scale manufacturing facilities within local sawmills in Europe to massive industrial operations around the world.
Big however, is not the only model - It may therefore be considered that the manufacturing of Mass Timber elements can only be undertaken at large-scale plants. This in fact is not the case as history demonstrates in Europe where this building technology is now well established and creates an annual demand of 3m m³.
The CLT Center Micro-Plant model makes Mass Timber financially accessible locally. This will be achieved by offering a package of services which partners with local or national businesses that operate regionally in the construction sector to enable small scale Mass Timber element processing all the way through to Mass Timber element manufacturing within micro-plants.
Services
The CLT Center Team is a group of highly experienced commercial, construction and technical Mass Timber production specialists who will bring a complete business model to you in the form of:
Financial Services
Franchise Model: Leveraging our expertise for quick execution and monetization.
Feasibility Studies: 5 & 10 year financial models for mass timber element manufacturing plants.
Plant Financial Management: Streamlined procedures for financial operations.
Guidance on plant design and production flow at existing locations or greenfield facilities.
Sourcing, supply and then installation of plant processing and or element manufacturing technologies at your chosen location
Design & Production
Guidance and assistance with National Code compliance
A range of fully designed CLT Center vernacular accommodation typologies
Exclusive customized design support for 5 affordable low rise accommodation models to suit your market demand.
Technical – Design and Compliance
Cost comparison analysis examples CLT to traditional build
Costing model templates for quoting projects
Commercial partner support for project winning
Ongoing technical and commercial reference support
Commercial
Affordable Accommodation Solutions
As part of the package, we will provide you with a range of accommodation solutions which have been fully designed and optimised in Mass Timber. We have strived to select a range profile that is typical and vernacular to the market sectors that we view will benefit from a Mass Timber solution. We of course understand that there will be variables to this but hopefully this range will demonstrate examples of what can be done supported by indicative build costs and build programme schedules.
In addition to this we also offer a Mass Timber design service for 5 accommodation types of your choosing in the low-rise residential category.
Offsite Mass Timber construction lends itself to fast build, robust accommodation solutions which in the main are repetitive and can be designed once and then easily replicated. Typologies highly suited to the Mass Timber building method would be in the following market sectors.
MULTIPLEX Housing (Low density)
Residential Single-Family Homes
Residential Multi-Family (Low Rise)
Veteran Housing
Long term care homes
Student Accommodation
Workforce Accommodation
Commercial Low Rise
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Affordable Housing
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MULTIPLEX Housing
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"Garden Style" Low rise Apartments