Neil Campbell Rowing Centre

This recreation facility served as a key infrastructure component for the 2024 World Rowing Championships and provides year-round fitness and rowing training for Canadian athletes. The facility is designed with an innovative mass timber composite roof structure, with glulam acting as webs engaging the CLT panels in tension and compression. The internal glulam web lattice optimizes the use of timber. This assembly clear spans up to 12 metres, with a double cantilever of 5 metres in a 600 mm total structural depth. The top cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels are 19 metres long and span the full width of the building. These panels are the longest manufactured in Canada. The roof structure is supported on 67mmx67mm slender steel columns and CLT shear walls. The entire facility rests on 15-metre-long screw piles that extend down to bedrock.