CreateTO is seeking compliance architectural services to advance the delivery of a mass timber housing project for the properties located at 1113-1117 Dundas Street West (the “Site”). The development will facilitate the construction of a 10-storey tall mass timber residential building, as part of CreateTO and the City of Toronto’s Environment and Climate Division’s Mass Timber Housing Pilot Program. The Site proposes minor commercial uses at-grade, along with amenity and garden courtyard spaces and a one-storey ancillary building at the rear of the Site to accommodate 85 long-term bicycle parking spaces. The building will be slab-on-grade, with no below-grade structures. The Site will also be one of the first projects completed as part of the City’s ‘Public Developer Model’. Upon completion of the building, the City of Toronto will own the building and lease it to a non-for-profit partner to operate.
To accommodate the proposed development, the existing buildings at 1113 Dundas Street West will be demolished as well as existing at-grade structures at 1117 Dundas Street West will be removed.
The role of the compliance architect (the “Compliance Architect”) throughout this project is to represent the Client from developing building specification/ performance standards for a mass timber building and assisting in writing the RFP to procure the contractor (“Mass Timber RFP”), to advise the Client through schematic design, design development, construction documents, construction administration, inspections, to total completion, signoffs, and handover. The purpose of the Compliance Architect is to ensure that the program goals established at the start of the project are achieved once completed.
