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https://www.bdcnetwork.com/shigeru-ban’s-mass-timber-tower-vancouver-gets-city-approval?eid=216310141&bid=1964255 Shigeru Ban’s mass timber tower in Vancouver gets city approval The 232-foot-tall Terrace House luxury condo development will be the tallest hybrid wood structure in North America.

One of Canada’s largest media companies dives into real estate development. Rogers moves forward on M City, a multi-building, multi-year project in a Toronto suburb. https://www.bdcnetwork.com/one-canada%E2%80%99s-largest-med

2016 Innovation Award Winner The Pin-Fuse is a dual-element structural solution, composed of Pin-Fuse Joints and Pin-Fuse Frames, which slip at pre-set loads to dissipate energy and achieve ductility during seismic events. Ensuring life-safety and collapse prevention performance of structures in moderate and severe earthquakes is generally considered to be a minimum seismic design objective for structures, and is embodied in the codes of most countries. Achieving this o...bjective does not, however, guarantee that a structure can remain in use after a severe earthquake. Damage to components and the permanent drift of a structure often require very expensive repairs and, not infrequently, total replacement of structures. With Pin-Fuse, material yielding and frictional slip allow base structural materials to remain undamaged, thereby reducing associated repairs, offering the potential for increased resilience, lower costs, and enhanced sustainability. The Pin-Fuse system opens the door to realizing increased resilience in buildings constructed in highly active seismic regions. By providing just the right amount of give under pre-determined axial loads, the system is innovative for its tested impact on repair frequency, costs, and structural longevity for buildings in high seismic zones. SawTeen See, Technical Jury Chair, Managing Partner, Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York City

Shanghai Tower wins CTBUH’s Best Tall Building Worldwide award for 2016 http://awards.ctbuh.org/winners/?award-year=2016#tabs-years