Owner
StructureCraft
Architect
Keystone
Our Services
Engineer of Record 
Engineer-Build
Area
60,000 sf.
Location
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Status
Completed 2017

StructureCraft Headquarters

Owner
StructureCraft
Architect
Keystone
Our Services
Engineer of Record 
Engineer-Build
Area
60,000 sf.
Location
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Status
Completed 2017

A 60,000 Sqft Facility Including a Consulting Office and Manufacturing Plant

We lead all consulting and construction operations out of our 60,000sqft facility in Abbotsford, British Columbia, an hour outside of Vancouver. This headquarters, a model of engineering efficiency, sets a new standard in office and industrial building design with wood.

Our 10,000 sqft consulting office, located directly next to our manufacturing/research plant, directs all North American and international projects, both in the consulting phase and throughout construction. The office hosts our Business Development, Engineering & Drafting, Finance, and Project Management departments. Operating in unison with these departments, our 50,000 sqft plant manufactures Dowel Laminated Timber, North America's first all-wood mass timber product, as well as a variety of specialty timber structures. Our site installation teams are directed out of this plant.

The prefabricated wall and roof panels for our plant were designed with a variety of mass timber and engineered wood products, including DLT, LSL, NLT, and Glulam. To demonstrate the flexibility of mass wood in industrial buildings, StructureCraft designed the entire building as a demountable structure, providing flexibility to expand or move the facility entirely to a new location.

We believe there's a more efficient and effective way to construct the industrial buildings of the future using this method.

The new facility was designed to explore what could be possible using wood for a simple industrial building with a tight budget. That exploration, while not simple during the design phase, has created a prototype which proves that modern industrial buildings may be created cost-effectively, and attractively, using wood.

Highlights

  • The erection of the timber superstructure commenced on a Monday, and our crew had the entire building installed by that same Friday.

  • In just one week, all four walls and a 40,000sqft roof were installed.

Updates

In 2022, we expanded our manufacturing & research facility by 10,000 sqft, allowing for more efficient production of DLT and other unique timber products.



Awards

Prefabricated Structural Wood
2018 WOOD DESIGN AWARDS
The Award for Outstanding Value
Structural Awards 2018