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: (41) Industry Outlook; 2026 & Beyond Peter Norman Peter Norman is the Vice President and Chief Economist at Altus Group, where he leads the firm’s national economic advisory and market research practice. With more than 25 years of experience in real estate economics, he is recognized as one of Canada’s foremost experts on housing markets, construction trends, and development forecasting. More about this episode... Older Episodes: (#42) All about Multiplex Housing: Data from 452...

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....