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Groundbreaking ceremony for Element5 expansion
18 October, 2025

Element5 Celebrates Facility Expansion with Grand Opening – September 2025

17 October, 2025

Element5 at Canada Builds Modular 2025

Interior of Element5 mass timber offices.
17 September, 2025

Element5 Mass Timber Celebrates Grand Opening of Expanded Manufacturing Plant in St. Thomas, Ontario

Element5 & HASSLACHER at AIA25
26 May, 2025

Element5 & HASSLACHER at AIA25 Boston

26 August, 2024

Ontario Government Invests $3.46 Million in Element5 Mass Timber Manufacturer – July 2024

Groundbreaking ceremony for Element5 expansion
19 July, 2024

Groundbreaking Ceremony for Element5 Mass Timber Facility Expansion – June 2024

13 March, 2024

Element5 at the 2024 Mass Timber Conference

Exterior rendering of the Element5 office.
13 February, 2024

Element5 Continues Rapid Development – New Funding Accelerates Growth, Plant Expansion

13 February, 2024

Element5 Receives Strategic Investment From the HASSLACHER Group – Press Release

Ontario's Housing Crisis - Witnessing the Potential of Ontario's Forest Products. A breakfast lunch and learn taking place at the College of Carpenters and Allied Trades
23 January, 2024

Ontario’s Housing Crisis Event Session

RBC Disruptors podcast artwork showing headshots of guest Patrick Chouinard, Founder of Element5 and Chris Stern, CEO of Carbicrete.
1 November, 2023

Element5 Featured in RBC’s “Disruptors” podcast and “Timber Rising” Report

1 February, 2023

Mass Timber: Issues and Opportunities

10 February, 2022

Capturing Carbon

21 December, 2021

Getting the Most from Every Panel

8 October, 2021

Prefab Construction Creating New Opportunities

16 September, 2021

Places of Production: Forest and Factory

20 May, 2021

Wood and Wellness – Biophilic Design

21 April, 2021

Element 5’s New Mass Timber Production Facility Obtains FSC® Certification

6 April, 2021

Element 5’s New Plant Certified to ANSI/APA PRG 320-2019

30 March, 2021

A Mass Timber Solution for Rapid, Affordable Housing

21 February, 2021

Attainable + Sustainable: affordable mass timber housing

22 September, 2020

Solid Local Partnerships Help Fuel Smooth Start-Up

18 August, 2020

Right on Schedule: CLT Production Line Installation is Underway at St. Thomas Factory

4 March, 2020

A Modern Wood Design Education

27 November, 2019

Cardinal House: a healthy, resilient, mass-timber home for First Nations communities

29 August, 2019

Element5 to open Mass Timber Factory in St. Thomas, Ontario – 2019

22 April, 2017

Changing the World – Rethinking the Design and Construction Process

22 March, 2017

CLT and Glulam from Timber Structures Frame New Orillia Waterfront Centre

27 January, 2017

The Journey to High Performance: Mass Timber – A Good Place to Start

20 December, 2016

The Timber Evolution: Mass Timber is a Global Movement

13 October, 2016

CLT: Sending Wood to the Environmental Rescue

10 September, 2016

CLT: The (Human) Face of the Forest

17 August, 2016

CLT: Are we on the right path?

14 July, 2016

CLT and the Pink Elephant

16 June, 2016

CLT Provides Refuge for it’s Own Designer

31 May, 2016

Toronto’s Timber Buildings – The Soul of Our City

22 April, 2016

CLT Schools in North America – It’s Happening

22 March, 2016

Ontario Poised to Lead Canada in Heavy Timber Construction