Canadian homes make good use of Canadian softwood lumber but for larger building construction, including multi-unit homes, concrete and steel are still the leading building materials. However, there’s a relatively new building material that’s getting increased attention, particularly in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia: mass timber.

Mass timber is not one product but a category of building materials. It’s engineered wood products, made from lumber layered and bonded together in different ways. Glue-laminated timber (glulam) has been around for decades, for instance, but attention has jumped more recently to cross-laminated timber (CLT). Natural Resources Canada calls it the “new generation” of engineered mass timber product.

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