PHOTO: Wood-Framed Work

Construction is moving along on the city’s first six-storey residential wood-framed development, Daniels FirstHome Markham Sheppard by The Daniels Corporation and DiamondCorp. in Toronto’s Scarborough community.

The project includes three six-storey mid-rise buildings with approximately 228 suites and four three-storey stacked townhome blocks. Amenities will include fitness and programming facilities, entertaining space, community gardens and a greenhouse, as well as outdoor dining and barbecue areas and a new park. Allstar prefabricates the wooden wall and floor panels at an off-site factory. A Magni 6.46 SH rotating telehandler and a Magni RTH 6.39 were brought onsite to lift the prefabricated panels into place. The project was designed by Quadrangle and Wilk Associates is the landscape architect.