Want the beauty and elegance of a handcrafted wood home without the big footprint price tag? Think tiny. Like, 140 square feet tiny. In a space smaller than some bathrooms, Chris and Malissa Tack designed a whole home, with gable roof and dormers. The Tiny Tack House sits on a 7’ x 20’ trailer bed, [...]

We see these roofs on ground-breaking green buildings. We may even know that they help to moderate a building’s temperature and control storm water in urban areas. But what makes them work? What different kinds of technology are used? If you want the basics on green roofs, check out this video from greenroofs.com – it’s [...]

It seems like just yesterday… the world was watching Vancouver 2010, and the CBR BRODA® crew was glued to the screen, hoping to catch a glimpse of… the lodge. Yes, the Day Lodge at Whistler Olympic Park is a BRODA® PRO-TEK-TOR coated project, its huge timbers protected with our low-VOC water-borne natural oil stain. Now [...]

Landscape architects are generally pretty busy folks. But Bryce Gauthier of Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture has made the time to co-found an organization called Projects in Place – a volunteer-run non-profit society that brings construction professionals together with the general public to design and implement projects that benefit their community. In the summer of [...]

The Safehaven Project For Community Living (Safehaven) in Toronto (Etobicoke, North York, Woodbridge and Aurora) in Ontario, Canada is a not-for-profit organization which provides respite and residential care to children who for the most part cannot walk, talk, see or hear. As a volunteer I serve my skills whenever and however I can, thus I [...]

Hastings Park Childcare Centre, in Vancouver, is a fantastic 7,100 square foot facility that sits beautifully located on Renfrew Street on a sloped hill facing mountain views and opening out to a lovely view of the racetrack.  It has 44 licensed child care spaces for infants up to 5 years old. The program is operated [...]

Here is a beautiful home on the lake in Nelson, BC,  built by Purcell Timber Frames, who also hail from Nelson. CBR Products worked closely with Purcell and Co. to come up with a custom colour, in our Broda Pro-Tek-Tor SLT (Siding Log & Timber), for the trim on this building. The colour was coined [...]

Our friends at Structurlam have been doing some big things. Like building 58 of these 107-foot long mammoth beams for a new building being constructed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. This is no ordinary building. The original Kimbell Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, has become an architectural Mecca, so expanding on [...]

The South Bonson Community Centre is the heart of the Pitt Meadow community of Bonson.  The setting is beautifully located on the banks of the Fraser River on the site of an old saw mill. There are clusters of townhouses, condos, and a small grouping of supporting retail shops with the Community Centre sitting proudly in [...]

It took more than a decade of planning and 17 months of construction, but VanDusen Gardens’ new centerpiece of green building is now open to the public. And we are proud to say BRODA® Coatings are a part of it. The $21.9 Million Visitor Centre was designed to meet the LEED Platinum level of excellence, [...]