StructureCraft

01/29/2026

12/26/2025

11/18/2025

We're honoured to announce that our Vice President Lucas Epp will give the 2025 Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design today at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - also serving as a keynote at the Advances in Architectural Geometry 2025 conference.

Livestream the Edward and Mary Allen Lecture in Structural Design today at 3pm PT / 6pm ET: youtube.com/live/e6wNnwtjdjk?si=JbO43XPyunGyXxLV

Lucas will challenge the current bifurcated method of construction. His lecture will revisit traditional master builder approaches to design, engineering, and construction - and a return to natural materials shaped in their rawest form.

This is the 2025 iteration of the long-standing lecture series named in honour of Ed Allen of MIT. Each year MIT invites leading structural designers to campus, with a brief to show built work and explain the structural thinking behind it.

10/17/2025

Such an honour to be a part of Johns Hopkins University's next chapter.

08/19/2025

Demolition is complete on the old Confederation Drive vehicle bridge, decommissioned in 2015.

This removal, part of our Design-Build scope, paves way for site works to begin on the new Pedestrian Bridge, slated to open this November.

The new structure will provide a vital Active Transportation link between Centennial and Veteran's Memorial Parks in Smiths Falls, Ontario, central destinations for the Town's residents and tourists.

The footbridge design incorporates traditional materials such as timber, steel, and stone to seamlessly integrate with the historical context of the Rideau Canal (considered one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century) and complement the Town’s architecture.

The design features symmetrical viewing platforms on each side of the bridge, offering pedestrians an enhanced experience of the river and surrounding scenery.

08/18/2025

01/28/2025

Spanning 50m (164ft) over the historic Rideau Canal, the Confederation Drive Pedestrian Bridge will provide a vital active transportation link for the residents of Smiths Falls.

We are honoured that StructureCraft was the chosen proponent to realize this iconic footbridge in the Town of Smiths Falls, Ontario, set for completion later this year.

The design, led by Gerald Epp, incorporates traditional materials such as timber, steel, and stone to integrate with the historical context of the Rideau Canal and complement the Town’s architecture. It features tapered glulam arches which support a doubly-curved metal roof and reach nearly 9m (30ft) above the bridge deck to clear-span the Rideau Canal.

Minimizing the project's environmental impact on the river and preserving the natural waterway, the clear span alignment eliminates the need for in-water works. The abutments are cast directly behind the existing canal walls, leaving them intact. Transitioning from timber to stone-clad concrete at the abutments, the arch design minimizes exposure of the lower timber.

This signature bridge, a carefully chosen combination of timber, steel, and stonework, provides a durable, sustainable contribution to the historic Rideau Canal, and a modern first of its kind in Ontario.

Client: Town of Smiths Falls
Structural Engineer and Design-Build Contractor: StructureCraft.
Landscape Architect: Fotenn Planning + Design
Environmental: Kilgour & Associates Ltd.
Geotechnical: Thurber Engineering Ltd.

11/26/2024

We were honoured to receive a Business Excellence Award from the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce last week!

StructureCraft was awarded the Manufacturing & Production Excellence Award "for its outstanding achievements in structural engineering and mass timber construction". This award demonstrates our commitment to the Abbotsford community as we continue to employ local talent, working both locally and globally.

Our Abbotsford team has established a presence since 2017, and today we employ over 100 people at StructureCraft's headquarters, a stone's throw from the Abbotsford International Airport! We have contributed to many landmark projects in the Fraser Valley and are active in giving back to the community at both an employee and corporate level.

Thank you to the Chamber for this honour, and to our strong, dedicated team members who create meaningful impact! We were happy to have Kristi Lockhart accept the award on this team's behalf😎

06/26/2024

All-wood nodes in the Makers' KUbe - a showcase of timber tectonics and traditional joinery.

For the University of Kansas' new School of Architecture & Design, our engineers were challenged to imagine a mass timber structure with no steel connections or fasteners – all wood.

Inspired by traditional Japanese joinery, the corner nodes are particularly complex, with optimized saw-tooth geometry used to transfer both tension and compression forces into the beams, columns, and braces. Critically, the joints are primarily tight-fit, requiring a high degree of precision and accuracy in detailing and fabrication.

We had the opportunity to create this mockup of the larger building featuring the architecturally expressive “Hero Node”. It was modeled in Branch 3D and built in just 8 hours!

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
BNIM

📸: Graham Handford

05/16/2024

Technical highlight: the Centre for Excellence at KF Aerospace, featuring queen-posted mass timber spanning 60 feet.

The aerospace museum is shaped like a plane, with two 'hangars' flanking a central two-story hub space. The roof panel trusses of the hub structure consist of a dowel-laminated timber top chord, two steel queen-posts and a tension cable. Curvature was achieved by letting the DLT panels 'sag' over two middle supported jigs (and we had 4 carpenters standing at each end!), before installing the cable and locking the curvature in place by tensioning the cables.

The floor of the hub uses an innovative timber-concrete composite queen-post truss floor system, clear-spanning 45’ and controlling deflections and vibrations.

Client: KF Aerospace, Kelowna
Architect: Meiklejohn Architects Inc
Contractor: Sawchuk Developments Co. Ltd.
Our Service: Structural engineer of record (full structure), sourcing & installation (timber & steel superstructure)