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Greetings for your regular ‘Timber Tuesday’ update: This week our first two features are local good news stories. Both projects have been well publicised and are great ambassadors for mass timber to the wider architectural and infrastructure communities. The role of timber in facilitating a great look and sustainable outcome for their owners is stunning and worth celebrating. Two other important categories feature in the next two stories; adaptive reuse and industrial buildings. Enjoy. If your team has a stunning case study you would like to share with our WoodWorks Conference audience in October – call me and email the details please. Happy ‘masstimbering’!
10 March 2026
Aspiring Living – Ngā Mokopuna
This fantastic building was the subject of our WoodWorks 2023 site visit, an excellent showcase of local mass timber and cladding done exceptionally well!...
10 March 2026
837 Beatty Street
Mass timber played a pivotal role in the adaptive reuse of the 837 Beatty Street building in Vancouver by enabling the transformation of the existing structure into a modern, sustainable...
And One to End the Issue
Ain’t no rule says a dog can’t compete in the Olympics
A local dog made a bid for Olympic glory Wednesday morning, breaking out of his doghouse and onto the homestretch of the cross-country ski course in the middle of a race.
Two-year-old Nazgul was quickly collared by race officials and returned unharmed to his home at a nearby bed-and-breakfast, but not before his genial presence lit up television sets and social media channels around the world — even if he perplexed some of the athletes who encountered him.
“I was like, ‘Am I hallucinating?” said Tena Hadzic, a 21-year-old Croatian skier who encountered the dog on her trip down the homestretch. “I don’t know what I should do, because maybe he could attack me, bite me.”
Race organizers did not make Nazgul available for questions after his capture.
