Aragon to Build North America’s Largest Residential Mass Timber Project

According to Woodworking Network (5-9-23), Aragon, the real estate development company, plans to build North America’s largest residential CLT project. The 77-unit residential Timber House will be built in New Westminster, BC, with Kalesnikoff, a Canadian CLT company based in Thrums, BC, providing the materials for the project.

While the Ascent building in Milwaukee—a hybrid concrete and timber building—was designated in 2022 by the Council on Tall Buildings as the tallest timber building at 284 feet, Aragon says its 77-unit Timber House residential project is the largest in North America when considering the issue in terms of “most amount of exposed CLT in the interior of any residential project in North America.” The company has not as yet quantified that description.

Woodworking Network says mass timber will not only be used as the primary structure, but it also serves as an integral design feature of the interior finish, with many walls left exposed to showcase the natural and attractive aesthetic of the wood. As a true kit-of-parts solution, Timber House optimizes mass timber’s structural and aesthetic design qualities with constructability and cost efficiency.