November 2024: Congratulations to Nahom K. Berile, Ph.D. candidate, for winning First Place - Best Student Presenter award at the CEISCE Annual Colloquium, held at the Université de Sherbrooke for his presentation on performance-based wind design of tall mass timber buildings with nonlinear inelastic response.

November 2024: McGill Timber Structures Group (McGill-TSG) had the opportunity to visit Nordic Structures! Thank you to David Hanna for the warm welcome, an insightful office tour, and valuable presentations on Nordic’s practices, innovations, and projects.

August 2024: McGill Timber Structures Group (McGill-TSG) attended the summer workshop at the Department of Forest Science at Laval University (LU) (Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt - Université Laval). The theme of the workshop was “𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻”.

July 2024: Congratulations to Nahom K. Berile on winning the Arn Womble Best Student Presentation Award for his presentation titled "Performance-based Wind Design of Tall Mass Timber Buildings with Coupled Post-Tensioned Rocking Cross-Laminated Timber Shear Walls" at the 7th American Association for Wind Engineering Workshop at the University of Michigan.

July 2024: McGill Timber Structures Group (McGill-TSG) participated in the 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering WCEE2024, held in Milan, Italy!Prof. Matiyas A Bezabeh, representing Huanru Zhu, Prof. Asif Iqbal, Dr. Marjan Popovski, and Dr. Zhiyong Chen, presented a paper on the seismic performance of mass timber buildings with post-tensioned CLT shear walls.

July 2024: It is with immense pride that we congratulate Huanru Zhu on presenting his Thesis seminar at McGill University, in the TSG lab, under the supervision of Professor Matiyas A Bezabeh.

June 2024: Congratulations to Nahom K. Berile on winning the third place best student paper award at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers CSCE 2024 conference for his paper titled "Nonparametric Sector Dependence Modelling for the Directional Synthesis of Local Wind Climate and Building Aerodynamic Response".

June 2024: We are pleased to share that Prof. Matiyas A Bezabeh, Nahom K. Berile, and Huanru Zhu, presented four papers last week at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers CSCE2024 conference!

June 2024: Congrats to TSG members Nahom K. Berile, Huanru Zhu, and Aya Risha for securing the top three awards at the CEGSS conference! Your hard work paid off!

November 2023: McGill TSG is thrilled to share the news that, with researchers from the University of Laval, we acquired $685,000 in funding from the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, Quebec. Professors Bezabeh and Rogers from McGill University, Professor Salenikovich from the University of Laval, Dr. Dagenais from FPInnovations, and around ten collaborators from the industry make up our team. From 2023 to 2029, we will develop next-generation hybrid timber-steel building systems that withstand strong winds and earthquakes.

November 2023: Huanru has been awarded McGill's Graduate Excellence Fellowship. Excellent, and congratulations, Huanu!

September 2023: Prof. Bezabeh received the prestigious NSERC Discovery Grant. Bezabeh also received the Discovery Launch Supplement.

August 2023: McGill TSG joined the NSERC Alliance Next-generation Wood Construction collaborative project. Under this project, McGill TSG secured funding to investigate the seismic performance of wood-frame buildings on concrete podiums.

August 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE 2023) in Florence, Italy.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the SEI-NIST Workshop on Computational Wind Engineering at ASCE HQ, Reston, VA.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the shaking table test of a 10-story tall mass timber building at the NHERI Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST6) at the University of California, San Diego.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the 2023 Structures Congress conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

March 2023: Prof. Bezabeh gave an invited talk at Concordia University on the wind performance of tall mass-timber buildings.

March 2023: McGill TSG, in partnership with Fast + Epp, has been awarded a new grant through Mitacs to investigate the 3D response of wind-excited tall mass-timber buildings and develop the next generation risk-based wind design frameworks for mass timber buildings.

April 2023: Aya Risha will join the McGill-TSG as an MSc student in September 2023. Welcome to the McGill-TSG Aya!

April 2023: Abebaw Mekonnen will join the McGill-TSG in September 2023 as a PhD student. Welcome to the McGill-TSG Abebaw!