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’s the most wonderful time of the year and we’re all ready for a nice break to spend time with friends and family. And we know you’ve all been waiting for this too. It’s been an awesome year for us at CBR with new products being developed, old products being tweeked to perform even better, [...]

John Hemsworth of McFarland Marceau Architects Ltd contacted me in October of 2009 to inquire about a coating for huge glulam beams on a project he was working on. This project turned out to be the Vancouver Island University’s Centre for Shellfish Research.  Construction is now complete in the southern end of Baynes Sound on [...]