That's a great question.
Unfortunately I did not win the project to build Brock Commons, but we are building taller buildings elsewhere in the world right now. In Canada, I believe there are an infinite number of opportunities to build more in mass timber.
At low heights, we've done many mass timber buildings in Canada that are what I call “legacy buildings”. These are institutional investments in a building when you expect that investment to last 60 to 100 years. Where you might choose to build in concrete or concrete block and light wood frame construction may not be robust enough for that kind of longevity, such as in an earthquake zone, where I live, is where you might choose to use these products on lower buildings. This would be for a university campus and certainly for government buildings. I built North Vancouver City Hall this way. I built part of the Ottawa airport. The Ottawa airport, by the way, is one of my designs. It's only part wood, but it is part wood. Certainly lower heights are possible.
The other important thing is that we talk about tall wood buildings, and not because I believe we should have a world of 24-storey or 30-storey tall wood buildings. I believe you design a few at that height, and the public gets comfortable with that idea. Then when we build a lot of buildings at 12 storeys and 14 storeys, where most people live—10 to 12 storeys, 14 storeys in the cities—the public then becomes very comfortable, because they can point to much taller buildings. The big super-tall building is really about stretching imagination, pushing engineering innovation, and changing the public's perception of what is possible. The vast majority of advanced wood buildings will be 14 storeys and less, I would guess.