News in offsite construction

Fyrtornet, a 51.5-meter office tower, is Sweden’s tallest wooden office building and one of the first to forgo a concrete core, Wood Central reported.

BCIT has opened its new mass timber student housing residence at the Burnaby campus. The 12-story tower is the city’s tallest timber building.

The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, has completed a 144,000-square-foot public research facility that features mass timber, Building Design + Construction reported.

Vancouver’s new Freedom Mobile Arch Amphitheater has installed the final glulam beam for the mass timber roof, Daily Hive Urbanized reported.

Neutral released results from the first successful three-hour fire-resistance test of a hybrid mass timber building assembly with standard connectors.

Air New Zealand’s Hangar 4 has reached a major milestone with the installation of its 27-meter-high (88.5 feet), 80-meter-wide (262 feet) hangar door, Wood Central reported.

Stephen F. Austin State University officially opened its first mass timber building and the first mass timber project in The University of Texas System.

A permit application was submitted for a seven-story, 129-room hotel that would become Cleveland’s second mid-rise mass timber building if approved, NEOtrans reported.

The New York City Economic Development Corporation and Newlab announced the next cohorts for the NYC Mass Timber Studio and the Resilient Energy Studio.

George Brown College’s Limberlost Place is helping drive Ontario’s mass timber construction strategy, Ontario Construction News reported.