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Home » Upcoming Multifamily Project in British Columbia Combines Passive House and Mass Timber
In British Columbia’s capital regional district, where housing prices are among the least affordable in all of Canada, the municipality of Esquimalt has given the go-ahead to a development that will offer community-oriented, Passive House–certified, market-rate condominium housing at prices middle income households can contemplate. To achieve its affordability, sustainability, and liveability trifecta—garnering an associated height and density bonus from the municipality—the 83-unit, twelve-story development will combine prefabrication with mass-timber construction, topping out as one of the tallest wood buildings in North America.
“The goal is sustainable, attainable, liveable, community-oriented housing that empowers the end user,” says Oliver Lang, a principal at Vancouver-based Lang Wilson Practice in Architecture Culture (LWPAC), the project’s architect.
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