ASPECT Structural Engineers

The holidays are here, people! ‘Tis the season to look back on all the heartwarming moments of 2024 🥰 🫶Where to start… Soccer champs… piñata smashers… double bubble fiends… this year we really proved you CAN have / be / become / strive for it all! On top of which, 2024 will go down in history as the FIRST year we were named one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers 🤩. Awards aside, it’s our team that sets ASPECT apart – a team that’s committed to delivering quality work… AND having fun along the way 🥲.  Check out our lil’ montage to get an inside scoop on working at ASPECT *roll the tapes*. 📽️ Okay folks… that’s all for this year! 😴 Our North American offices will be re-opening January 2nd, and our Bern office will be re-opening January 6th… 2025! From all of us here at ASPECT, wishing you a safe and happy holiday season… we can’t wait to “see ya!” in the new year! 🎉 #workculture #ourpeople #structuralengineers #wearehiring #hiringpost

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Hitting shuffle on our fav’ feel good hits. 💿 #ICYMI we’ve been curating playlists throughout the year - soliciting our global team’s favourite tunes and seasonal hits. Which means we’re now starting to grow our own “favourite playlists”… which is sort of like Spotify Wrapped, but also… intentional… and curated… so maybe not like Wrapped at all? 🤏 🤷♀️ AND, to round out 2024, we’re 🎁 adding one final Playlist to the mix… *Insert Announcer Voice Here* We give you: Brr (but make it BANGERZ)! 🎶 📣 Whether you’re heading to a holiday party, cozy by a warm fire, or wrapping up some ~work shtuff~ before the break, this one’s got something for everyone (as you’ll notice from the wide assortment of genres)!🎄 🔥 You can find this BANGER list (and ALL ASPECT playlists) here: https://lnkd.in/gUxgv2yW #HolidaySeason #Music #WinterJams #Playlist #CuratedPlaylist 

The highlights keep highlighting ⭐ This week’s 2024 award-winning project ~*spotlight*~: the Helmsley Cancer Centre—a therapeutic space developed for non-invasive cancer treatments, which was showered with FOUR awards in the spring. 🏅 At the 13th World Congress of The International Academy of Design & Health, the Cancer Centre’s awards included the International Health Building Award, the Salutogenic Building Award, and the Interior Design Award. THEN at the European Healthcare Design Congress in London, *switches to British accent* the project was awarded a prestigious global Design for Health and Wellness Award at the organization’s 10th congress in June 2024. Needless to say, this project swept the board. This cancer centre is the largest and most intricate wooden structure in the region and is part of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, which is a prominent teaching hospital in Israel. We worked with Farrow Partnership Architects to help develop the roof and lobby areas of this award-winning building. The success of the project, as well as the multiple accolades that followed, was largely due to the project team, which also included Rubinstein Ofer Architects Ltd., Enartec, Programming Architecture, and WIEHAG Timber Construction GmbH. Read more about the project and its award recognitions in Canadian Architect Magazine: https://lnkd.in/gkqQPz9v 📷 Harel Gilboa #throwback #awards #healthcare #medicalcentere #masstimber #masstimberadvisory #structuralengineering #structural #cancercare

Reflections on 2024: This was ASPECT’s five year Toronto-versary! And WOODn’t it be nice and convenient if the five-year anniversary was also the traditional “wood” anniversary? Oh wait… 😌 In 2019, ASPECT opened a Toronto office with a clear goal: to further service our clients and projects in the city, region, and province. And YO…has Toronto ever kept us busy! Beyond the city, this office has also significantly contributed to our North America portfolio… in addition to significantly contributing to our company culture 👌 Even though we work with lots of building materials, for the sake of this post (and our “wood” anniversary) we shall focus on our ~*affinity for wood*~. 😀 The past five years have seen a BIG emphasis on mass timber, light wood frame, and other wood-centric buildings across the city and province…and that just so happens to be our specialty! Lauremont School Upper School Dining Hall… a Mississauga Mass Timber Restaurant… 1925 Victoria Park… Prologis Evergreen… and much, much more. When it comes to some of the most exciting, beautiful, sustainable, and purpose-built developments in the city, our answer is, “yup, we totally wood!”. We even have our own UrbanToronto.ca page now! What better way to tell you that we “totally go here”?: https://lnkd.in/gyajK7CS Just don’t ask us which side we took in the Drake / Kendrick beef... 👀 #Toronto #Ontario #Engineering #StructuralEngineers #Sustinability #Wood #MassTimber #LWF #MassTimberSpecialty #FiveYearAnniversary

It’s like the gift that keeps on giving 🎁. This week we’re continuing to highlight award-winning projects from 2024🏆 Google’s first ground-up mass timber office was officially unveiled to the public last month, and is already gaining lots of attention.🏅 The five-storey building was honoured with the Wood in Architecture Award through WoodWorks Innovation Network (WIN)! 👏 Designed to prioritize the employee wellbeing and decrease carbon emissions, the beautiful design elements support the aesthetics of the building as well as Google’s goal to achieve net zero emissions by 2030. 🌳 Providing Temporary Works Engineering, our team at ASPECT supported the installer, Kinsol Timber Systems, for this impressive mass timber structure. To learn more about this building, visit the WoodWorks Innovation Network: https://lnkd.in/gEBei2cE THE MIGHTY, MIGHTY PROJECT TEAM: MGA | Michael Green Architecture Kinsol Mercer Mass Timber SERA Architects EQUILIBRIUM Elevated Construction Services, LLC XL Construction Global Integrated Flooring Solutions (Global IFS) Rothoblaas Holmes US Simpson Strong-Tie 📸: Mark Wickens #google #1265borregas #masstimberspecialtyservices #temporaryworks #masstimberdesign #woodinarchitectureaward #masstimberawardwin

The highlights keep on highlighting… we’re onto 2024 project awards! 💫 619 Ponce wrapped up earlier this year— a stunning, four-storey mass timber office building in Atlanta, Georgia. 🤩 Back in October, this innovative design was honoured with the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Sponsored Award, at the 2024 Wood Design and Building Awards. 🏆 🌳 Featuring innovative cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels and glue-laminated (glulam) beams sourced from SFI®-certified forests, 619 Ponce is a testament to excellence in wood design and construction. This award is a significant milestone for every member of the team 🩷 👏 You can read more about the award through the Canadian Wood Council’s site: https://lnkd.in/dXcf99Xu PROJECT TEAM: Owner: Jamestown Architect: Handel Architects Engineer of Record: DeSimone Consulting Engineering Timber Contractor / Timber Engineer of Record: StructureCraft General Contractor: JE Dunn Construction Timber supplier (CLT & Glulam): SmartLam North America™ Mass Timber Advsory Services: ASPECT Structural Engineers 📸 Photos courtesy of Jamestown LP #wooddesignandbuildingawards #woodworks #woodworksaward #masstimber #masstimberadvisory

We’ve all heard the song about the twelve days, but we’re still confused about when the days actually start?! It FEELS like we want to start counting down at the beginning of December…but that would be more than twelve days ahead of time. We’ve thought a lot about this. Also, what’s up with the partridge in a pear tree? Feels like that could have been an either / or situation… 🤔 🎵 ANYWAY… while five golden rings feels…excessive… FIVE of our incredible team members earned their P.Eng designations this year 🏅 🎉 which we would definitely count as a 2024 ✨ highlight ✨, and is a celebration we can really get behind. Huge congratulations to Brendan Fitzgerald, M.Eng., P.Eng., Joseph Salkeld, John Neilson, Meike Engel, and Thomas Teflissi for hitting this massive professional milestone this year 👏. Way to bring it home 💪. #peng #ironrings #acheivingexcellence #structualengineers #engineering #professionalengineers

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What an uplifting view 🤩 Great job to the whole project team!