UBC embraces mass timber with $180 million Gateway Building

Wood construction allowed the University of British Columbia to represent three of its core values in designing the new Gateway Building: sustainability, personal well-being and Indigenous collaboration, said planning and design director Gerry McGeough.

Gerry McGeough sees mass timber as an ideal building material to represent the values of the University of British Columbia. That’s why more than $180 million has been invested in the university’s new Gateway Building, a six-storey, 267,000-square-foot mass timber building designed to be an iconic welcoming place for students, faculty and visitors. Excavation for … Continue reading UBC embraces mass timber with $180 million Gateway Building