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Creative Structural Engineering. Specialized Construction.

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We are an award-winning group of creative structural consulting engineers and specialized builders, realizing efficient and beautiful structures that people love to own and use. Since our start in 1998, we have become a world leader in wood construction, designing and erecting projects from North America to China. Located in Abbotsford (CA), Vancouver (CA), Seattle (USA) and Trento (Italy), our diverse team of 150+ includes professional engineers, 3D designers, drafters, and project managers in the office, and a skilled crew of craftsmen in the shop and on site. With over 26 years of experience, we have acted as the structural engineer and builder for over 10 million sqft of structures, including many of North America's most significant mass timber projects.

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Civil Engineering

Company size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Abbotsford, BC

Type

Privately Held

Founded

1998

Specialties

Structural Engineering, Timber Engineering, Mass Timber, DfMA, Timber Construction, Concrete Design, Steel Design, Parametric Design, Structural Consulting, and Concept Design

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Our Makers KUbe mockup at last year's Mass Timber Conference was quite the hit! We are excited to return again this year, featuring a mockup focused on mass timber seismic design. Stay tuned for more 👀 Reminiscing on last year, our engineers worked with BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group to imagine a mass timber structure with no steel connections or fasteners – all wood. The resulting full-scale structural mockup featured at the 2024 Mass Timber Conference uses an exterior Glulam diagrid achieved with 100% wood connections. This mockup of the larger KUbe features part of the Glulam diagrid, the architecturally expressive “Hero Node”, and a section of the L2 floor plate. Notably, the diagrid connections are designed as all-wood, inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, and required a high-level of precision in detailing and fabrication. Our structural design was entirely modeled in Branch 3D, fabricated in our shop by master carpenters, and erected in just 8 hours. We look forward to meeting you in Portland on March 25-27 at Booth 544 - come learn about the latest in structural engineering, tall timber, and seismic design! Photos: Graham Handford, StructureCraft#MockUp #MassTimber #Conference #Portland #StructuralEngineering #SeismicDesign
We're honoured to announce that Dr. Justin Brown and Dr. Wenchen Dong of StructureCraft have been welcomed as Affiliate Faculty at the Idaho State University College of Science and Engineering, in close collaboration with Professor Mustafa Mashal. Justin and Wenchen will bring a wealth of expertise to the faculty, with a focus on research & development and structural and earthquake engineering focused in the area of wood and hybrid-wood design. Justin Brown obtained his PhD in the seismic design of CLT shear wall systems from the University of Canterbury and has led significant engineering projects for StructureCraft, including the Johns Hopkins University Student Center and T3 Minneapolis. He has extensive experience in material research and mass timber seismic design, and currently serves as a sub-committee member on the CSA 086 code committee. Wenchen Dong has long experience working as a researcher, having completed his PhD in the seismic performance of glulam frames with BRBs, also at the University of Canterbury. He since has worked at UCL developing innovative recycled timber products, and joined StructureCraft two years ago as a mainstay of our Research & Development team. StructureCraft is excited to bolster our relationships with academia in the US through these and other key appointments, such as our Seattle office Director Leif Johnson's recent involvement at the University of Washington as a Visiting Professor.#StructuralEngineering #IdahoStateUniversity #Faculty #SeismicDesign #ShearWalls
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The Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak is not only a beautiful example of a mass timber pavilion, but one of our 2024 Wood in Architecture Award winners. Designed by Adjaye Associates (design architect) and Winstanley Architects & Planners (AOR), this mass timber project was specially designed so that it can eventually be dismantled and reassembled at a new location, with plans for it to be a community cornerstone regardless of where it resides. If you are an architect or engineer who has a mass timber, light-frame, or hybrid building located in the U.S., then consider nominating it for a 2025 Wood in Architecture Award! Submissions are open until January 25, 2025: https://lnkd.in/grhgXVnj Quality Buildings LLC StructureCraft Emerson Collective Redbrick LMD
designboom: Nancy Pauw Pedestrian Bridge's timber arch spans over Bow River in Canada "The Nancy Pauw Bridge, designed by StructureCraft, fulfills a century-old vision for Banff, Canada, by connecting Central Park to the Banff Recreation Grounds. Spanning 80 meters, this innovative timber arch bridge provides striking views of the Rocky Mountains and a graceful crossing over the Bow River. During its first summer, it welcomed over 300,000 users, showcasing ambitious design and construction. Banff’s newest pedestrian bridge connects key social infrastructure while serving as a destination itself. Like its sister bridge downstream, the Nancy Pauw Bridge features an 80m clear span, constructed using stepped Glulam girders and weathering steel haunches. This slender yet robust structure harmonizes with its surroundings, offering uninterrupted views while maintaining environmental integrity. The bridge represents the realization of a 108-year-old plan initially envisioned in 1914. Thanks to a private donation from the Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation, this long-held dream became a reality on September 6, 2022, with hundreds attending its grand opening." -designboom Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ew3Ae5W2
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Register now for Inspired Design, a free #WoodWorks webinar taking place next Wednesday. Discover how thoughtful engineering can harmonize beauty, efficiency, and sustainability in building design. Aaron Schroeder, Business Development Engineer at StructureCraft, will share insights into creating innovative, sustainable structures that stand the test of time. 📅 Date: January 22, 2025 ⏰ Time: 12 p.m. MST / 2 p.m. EST 🕒 Duration: 60 minutes Save your spot today: https://lnkd.in/eT8ZsbwKWhat You’ll Learn: - Why inspired design is often more economical. - How Design-Build fosters true innovation. - The value of starting with a cohesive design team. - Strategies to align project constraints for impactful results.#Webinar #SustainableDesign #MassTimber #Architecture #Collaboration
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Commissioned for Canada’s centenary, the original National Arts Centre | Centre national des Arts building was completed in 1969. Like contemporary projects such as London's Barbican or New York’s Lincoln Center, the building was cut off from its urban context and was designed with the mindset that arts performance is reserved for the elite. To create a more accessible and inviting public space, the NAC rejuvenation introduces a sequence of lobbies and audience spaces, constructed in mass timber, to mend the connection to the Ottawa streetscape and the adjacent Confederation Square. The new sequence of arrival and gathering spaces on the north side of the NAC unfold under a wave of gently billowing wood coffers. Fred Lebensold’s original 1969 design, with more than one hundred thousand square meters of concrete laid out within a carefully controlled triangular grid, established the powerful character and geometry that defined the design of this timber ceiling. Lebensold’s formal logic, drawn from his admiration of Alexander Graham Bell’s tetrahedral kites, is reinterpreted at all scales through prefabricated mass timber forms and high-performance glazing. Repeating triangular and hexagonal motifs, sympathetic to the original Brutalist concrete aesthetic, infuse the space with natural warmth and light. Working with Fast + Epp, renowned for their expertise with mass timber, we designed long-span trusses assembled from the repeating triangular coffer forms, composed of mass timber beams with steel knife-plate connections. This lightweight structure permitted the reuse of some of the existing foundations, and building with mass timber resulted in a low-embodied carbon design. Prefabrication of these mass timber elements produced by StructureCraft expedited on-site assembly and minimized construction disruptions. The National Arts Centre’s ‘Timber Cascade’ is featured in our new book Set Pieces which offers a visual exploration of the firm’s designs for some of the world’s most remarkable performing arts venues. Published by Birkhäuser. About Set Pieces:https://lnkd.in/e9njxThSLearn more about the National Arts Centre:https://lnkd.in/dwyUzP52 #diamondschmitt #diamondschmitt_setpieces #masstimber
Exciting developments in timber engineering and architecture are coming to the University of Washington! Leif Johnson, Structural Engineering Director at StructureCraft, will join the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington College of Built Environments as a Visiting Professor for the Barry Onouye Endowed Studio in 2025. The studio, named after the longtime structures instructor and textbook author, investigates the role of structure in architectural design under the tutelage of an invited structural engineer. In collaboration with Associate Professor Tyler Sprague, Leif will guide Master of Architecture students in designing and constructing a full-scale timber prototype. This project will push the boundaries of mass timber connections, tackling challenges like material behavior, fabrication, and steel reduction to create innovative, sustainable solutions. Read more here: https://onouye.be.uw.edu/Follow along as the studio builds a demonstration structure on the north lawn of Gould Hall, showcasing the integration of architecture and structure in mass timber design! Pictured: our Makers KUbe structural mockup for the University of Kansas, showcasing timber-timber Japanese-inspired joinery.#MassTimber #SustainableDesign #StructuralEngineering #TimberConnections #Architecture
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the nancy pauw bridge, designed by StructureCraft, fulfills a century-old vision for banff, canada, by connecting central park to the banff recreation grounds. spanning 80 meters, this innovative timber arch bridge provides striking views of the rocky mountains and a graceful crossing over the bow river. during its first summer, it welcomed over 300,000 users, showcasing ambitious design and construction. banff’s newest pedestrian bridge connects key social infrastructure while serving as a destination itself. like its sister bridge downstream, the nancy pauw bridge features an 80m clear span, constructed using stepped glulam girders and weathering steel haunches. this slender yet robust structure harmonizes with its surroundings, offering uninterrupted views while maintaining environmental integrity. the bridge represents the realization of a 108-year-old plan initially envisioned in 1914. read more here: https://lnkd.in/ew3Ae5W2
Spanning 25m (82ft), this freeform roof recently withstood the 260 km/hr winds of Typhoon Yagi to the Hainan Visitor Center in Haikou, China, featuring a prefabricated 9300 sqm (100,000 sqft) timber roof in China's most tropical province. A testament to the resiliency of our structural design, the visitor center weathered Typhoon Yagi's Category 5 wind forces with ease last September - the only damage being a few of the 350,000 red cedar shingles peeling off. Yagi was one of the strongest typhoon's that the Hainan province has ever faced. The roof structure is a combination of three different doubly curved free form roofs overlaying each other, with spans as long as 25m and cantilevers as much as 12m. Each is a unique roof shaped by dual lines of singly curved glulam beams and straight purlins, all modelled with 3D software. To achieve the double curvature as simply as possible, the purlins were spaced and staggered to fit onto the drop beams, and the plywood diaphragm was applied in two thin layers with wood strapping to support the cedar shingles. Lateral support for the roof is provided by both the adjacent concrete structures as well as steel V-bracing, strategically located near roof intersections, to minimize visual impact.#Resiliency #Typhoon #WindEngineering #StructuralEngineering #China #Hainan

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