Our Origins

• Mass Timber Structures will be increasingly more common and in greater demand as embodied carbon building becomes more of a societal concern and as a renewable resource, wood materials gain more emphasis.

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• In high seismic regions, the core or lateral force resisting system of the building structure is most often concrete. Enclosed formwork systems for cores do not pay for themselves until the building is 30 to 40 storeys of repeated use.

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• The speed of progression of freestanding concrete cores is typically a single level per week. If the Mass Timber part of the structure cannot proceed below the core and must wait until it is finished, the core contributes to a 5-day cycle per storey to the overall construction duration.

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• Greencore believes that building elevator & stair cores using a hybrid of Mass Timber and Steel can be much faster, safer and enable a lower embodied carbon footprint for buildings.