Cornerstone Timberframes

Mass Timber. Glulam. CLT. Built to endure storms, time, and trend.
Cornerstone Timberframes. Where timeless craftsmanship meets modern engineering.

[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

A developer can build taller in wood than ever before. The constraint is no longer the code. It's the coverage.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The hardest gap in mass timber right now isn't fire code or structural performance. It's actuarial. The industry is ahead of the data.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Mass timber insurance isn't a material problem. It's a data problem. The buildings work. Nobody's had enough of them long enough to price the risk properly.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

$13 billion in federal housing commitments. Mass timber and modular as the delivery vehicle. Insurance still catching up. Something has to give.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The code, the policy, and the capital markets are pointed in three different directions right now. The developer in the middle is trying to make a project pencil. That's the real problem.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The Mass Timber Insurance Action Plan launched in 2024. Data trust. Captive framework. Contractor prequalification. Right direction. The timeline just doesn't match the housing pressure.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The building code opened the door. Federal housing policy is pushing developers through it. The insurance market is still deciding whether the floor holds.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

You can legally build an 18-storey CLT tower in Vancouver. You'll just need 6-10 underwriters to cover it and pay a premium multiplier up to 10x higher than concrete.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Insurers aren't being unreasonable about mass timber. They're being actuaries. You can't price a risk you've never seen resolve over decades of real occupancy.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Canada's building code approved 18-storey mass timber. The insurance market didn't follow. Not because the material failed. Because the actuarial data doesn't exist yet.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

@pallisercorp It's going to be longer then any of us would like that is for sure.

[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Washington stripped setback and facade requirements for residential mass timber. Regulatory friction is dropping. How long until the rest of North America follows do you think?

[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The 2024 IBC now allows 100% exposed mass timber ceilings in Type IV-B construction. Up from 20%. That is a design decision that has to be made before the shop draws a single connection. Get the fabricator in the room early. #masstimber

[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

The Mass Timber Group Summit is in Denver this August. 40+ speakers. 78% decision-makers. If you're building in this space and not in that room, your competitors are. #masstimber

[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

2,746 U.S. mass timber projects in progress.
Michigan is booming.
Atlantic Canada is running feasibility studies.
The prairies are building.
The fabricators who invested in CNC precision are the ones the market is calling.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

$1.3 billion global mass timber market projected by 2030.
Growth projections don't build buildings.
Coordination does.
Fabrication does.

Getting the right people in the room before design locks does.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

In both the United States and Canada.
Same pattern everywhere: demand for mass timber. Not enough fabricators who can deliver at the precision the system requires.
Capacity is the real story.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Washington just removed development requirements on residential mass timber projects. Policy is moving faster than most project teams are.
If your design process hasn't changed, the opportunity isn't showing up yet.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

Mass timber is being positioned as part of the affordable housing solution.
That only works if fabrication capacity and early integration catch up to the demand signal.
The material isn't the bottleneck.
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[Cornerstone Timberframes @buildwithcs]

2,746 mass timber projects in progress or complete in the U.S. as of March 2026. The question isn't whether the market is moving. The question is whether your team is positioned to build in it.

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