Man 6

The Man 6 building is a three-story mass timber office building that spans 1,674 square metres. The owners and developers of the building chose mass timber construction because it demonstrates their commitment to environmental sustainability, as well as the viability of a mass timber building system as an alternative to conventional concrete. The exposed wooden structure adds warmth to the wide-open, high-floor-to-ceiling interior spaces.

Reminiscent of historic heavy industrial timber buildings, it features a hybrid design; cross-laminated timber (CLT) slabs serve as floors supported by glue-laminated timber (glulam) columns with a concrete core. This light industrial/office building maximizes the small 561 square metres lot located in Vancouver’s Fairview neighbourhood. This complex smaller project had no site laydown on a zero-clearance lot.

Kalesnikoff provided pre-cut glulam beams, custom panel sizing with daps cut for spline connections and custom steel connections. Prefabricated mass timber components enabled quicker and easier on-site assembly. During construction the site did not have setbacks or staging areas for materials, requiring an innovative approach to design, engineering and execution made possible by using BIM modeling. Man 6 serves to showcase how light industrial and commercial office can combine to a complementary effect.

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