Toronto | Poplar Road Junior Public School | 8.7m | 2s | TDSB | Moriyama Teshima

Northern Light · Jun 1, 2023

@AlexBozikovic will rightly fall over when he sees who the TDSB just hired for its new public school.

The TDSB has decided to rebuild the above school as a Mass Timber school.

The report on the above is headed to today's Finance, Budget and Enrollment Ctte meeting of the TDSB:

https://pub-tdsb.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=15727

From the above:

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AlexBozikovic · Jun 2, 2023

Not surprising.

This will be a 42,000 square-foot building. Can someone speculate on a realistic cost for mass timber?

ben.thebean1 · Jun 4, 2023

AlexBozikovic said:
Not surprising.

This will be a 42,000 square-foot building. Can someone speculate on a realistic cost for mass timber?

I don't think there's enough precedent to be able to narrow down the cost to a point that you'd be satisfied with the answer

Northern Light · Jun 4, 2023

AlexBozikovic said:
Not surprising.

This will be a 42,000 square-foot building. Can someone speculate on a realistic cost for mass timber?

I found a cost and pupil place comparator from Vancouver.

Obviously inflation will have been an issue since then, and the two markets have slightly different costing; but all things being equal I would assume a lower cost in Toronto as the Vancouver school had to have earthquake proofing measures.