New Episode: (42) All about Multiplex Housing: Data from 452 Multiplex Building Permits In Toronto Daniel Kolominsky a Senior Planner with the City of Toronto’s Development Review Division, where he supports major planning and policy files, including the Multiplex Monitoring Program, Six-plex Study, and Missing Middle Pilot. With a background in urban and regional planning and experience working across planning, engineering, and transportation inputs, Daniel brings a data-driven,...

New Episode: (40) Mid-rise Rental Development Chris Spoke Chris Spoke is a real estate developer and partner at Toronto Standard, a company that specializes in mid-rise rental infill in Toronto. Chris also speaks and writes about housing policy, including on his podcast Hogtown and in publications such as the Globe & Mail and The Hub. He is also one of the founders of the Missing Middle Summit. More about this episode... Upcoming Webinar: “How To Successfully Use Mass Timber In Your Next...

Hi Reader, Mass Timber is here to stay. As a building material it has unique characteristics that lends itself to prefabrication, modular, and new construction technologies. Combined with other methods and material, mass timber has the potential to change the way we build houses in Canada. But like any other new technology, it has a learning curve. While the industry has made great progress towards using this material over the past few years, we are still ways away from it's wide spread use....