Mass Timber
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Mass timber structures provide excellent structural performance, fire-engineered durability, and high-quality interior environments that enhance occupant experience and long-term asset value.
When mass timber is designed for manufacturing, transportation, and installation from day one, it becomes a powerful tool to deliver projects faster, cleaner, and with greater certainty. This is the mass timber integration role ON IT Projects was built to lead.
Why On It Projects
ON IT Projects operates at the heart of community project development, construction management, and modular and mass timber delivery. Our team brings hands-on experience leading real projects in real Prairie conditions including remote logistics, northern construction, and Indigenous community delivery environments.
We are not simply mass timber advocates. We are mass timber integration specialists. We provide experienced leadership across CLT, NLT, glulam, and hybrid mass timber construction systems.
Mass timber projects succeed or fail in the early stages. Our role is to bridge the gap between architectural vision, structural design, manufacturing realities, logistics, and on-site execution ensuring mass timber systems are optimized not only to look good on paper, but to fabricate, transport, and assemble efficiently in the real world.
Mass Timber Integration Services
We work alongside owners, architects, engineers, and manufacturers from the earliest project phases to reduce risk, control cost, and accelerate successful project delivery.
Mass Timber Feasibility & Concept Support
Early-stage assessments to determine what type mass timber is the right system for your project. We evaluate building typology, spans, heights, fire strategy, wind loads, soil conditions, procurement pathways, logistics, and cost drivers to support informed project go/no-go decisions.
Early Design & Engineering Coordination
We integrate construction and manufacturing insight directly into schematic and design development phases, aligning architectural layouts, structural grids, MEP coordination, and envelope interfaces with mass timber characteristics.
Connection Detailing & Constructability Reviews
We lead connection and interface reviews focused on structural efficiency, erection sequencing, tolerances, fire protection, acoustics, and integration with foundations and conventional systems.
Structural System Selection & Optimization
We help teams select and refine the most appropriate mass timber system CLT, NLT, glulam, or a hybrid approach balancing performance, availability, constructability, and budget. Our focus is on practical, repeatable systems that support efficient manufacturing and installation.
Manufacturer Engagement & Procurement Strategy
We work directly with mass timber manufacturers and specialty fabricators to support early pricing, scope definition, production planning, and long-lead time procurement, reducing surprises later in the project.
Fabrication Schedule Integration
We align design milestones, shop drawing timelines, and fabrication slots with overall project schedules ensuring off-site manufacturing production supports overall site construction.
Why Mass Timber
Mass timber structures provide excellent structural performance, fire-engineered durability, and high-quality interior environments that enhance occupant experience and long-term asset value.When mass timber is designed for manufacturing, transportation, and installation from day one, it becomes a powerful tool to deliver projects faster, cleaner, and with greater certainty.
Faster, More Predictable Schedules
Mass timber components are digitally modeled, fabricated off-site, and installed quickly. This reduces on-site durations, compresses critical paths, and allows earlier enclosure compared to conventional structural systems.
Reduced Site Labour and Logistics Risk
Prefabricated timber panels and assemblies minimize site labour, congestion, and weather exposure a major advantage for remote, northern, and community-based projects.
Manufacturing-Driven Cost Certainty
Because major structural elements are manufactured rather than built piece-by-piece on site, mass timber enables earlier pricing, clearer scopes, and more reliable budgeting when engaged early.
Sustainability and Funding Alignment
Mass timber buildings offer strong environmental performance, carbon benefits, and alignment with many municipal, provincial, and federal funding programs focused on low embodied carbon construction methodology and local economic development.