Brock Commons is not your average student residence. Rising to a height of 53 m (174 ft) above the campus of the University of British Columbia in Canada, it's the world's tallest wooden residential ...

as the world's tallest mass wood building. The world’s tallest mass timber building has opened at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. The Brock Commons Tallwood House is an 18-storey mass ...

Although they may at first seem like kindling for a modern-day Towering Inferno, timber skyscrapers–also known by the delightful portmanteau “plyscrapers”–are in vogue right now. Thanks to smart new ...

VANCOUVER - The final panel was laid on Brock Commons Phase 1, an 18-storey mass timber hybrid residence under construction at the University of British Columbia (UBC). The building will be comprised ...

In Vancouver, the towering timber Brock Commons just had its final panel installed, making the dream of the world’s tallest timber building a reality. In just 66 days – ahead of the original scheduled ...

The mass wood structure and façade has been completed for UBC's Brock Commons student residence -- the world's tallest wood building at 18 storeys (53 metres, about 174 feet) -- four months ahead of ...

The $51.5 million project is being completed with Architekten Hermann Kaufmann of Austria as tall wood advisors, Fast + Epp as structural engineers, GHL Consultants Ltd. as science and building code ...

Dollar Tree co-founder Macon F. Brock Jr. and his wife, Joan, are longtime supporters of Virginia schools — both Randolph-Macon College and Longwood University have a Brock Commons.