A Guide To Choosing The Right Floor System

A Guide To Choosing The Right Floor System

To create the home you’ve envisioned for years, there is a seemingly endless number of details to consider. Once you have reworked your floor plan and adjusted the home’s orientation and window placement to take advantage of your property’s views,…
 40 Years Of Service

40 Years Of Service

Over the years, we have been fortunate to attract great people and it has proved to be one of our most valuable assets. On October 6th, 2016  we took a break to recognize and celebrate Jeff Stewart on his 40-year…
 World’s Tallest Timber Tower

World’s Tallest Timber Tower

A new hybrid building under construction in Vancouver to house the University of British Columbia students will become the world’s tallest timber tower when completed in 2017. Designed by Acton Ostry Architects with Architekten Hermann Kaufmann of Austria as tall…

Cross-Laminated Timber in British Columbia

British Columbia is renowned internationally for the quality and innovative use of wood in architecture. From the earliest First Nations longhouse to the Richmond Speed Skating Oval, wood-based construction has been a widely used structural approach. The impetus to use…

106th Cobble Hill Fair

Pacific Truss is proud to support the Cobble Hill Fair again this year! Cobble Hill celebrates it 106th fair , August 22, 2015, showcasing all that is great about living in the South Cowichan area. Every fair is alive with activity…
 Bike to Work Week

Bike to Work Week

Pacific Homes and Truss was happy to participate in the Bike to Work Week again this year. We had 10 staff riders, logging 31 trips, over 500 km and we finished first in the Cowichan Valley business category. Way to…

New training facility for BC’s marine rescue

 Jim Lee, President of the Royal Canadian Marine Search & Rescue writes, “Thank you very much for your recent donation. Your donation will go directly towards construction of our new Training Facility for British Columbia’s 1,200 marine rescue volunteers. As…

WWTA: hard at work and a free jersey

The attendees at the Western Wood Truss Association (WWTA) annual general meeting gathered together after to watch the hockey game on Sunday night. During which they drew a name for a free Canucks jersey and it was Lorne Winship,  our general manager, who won…

Looking Into 2015

A MESSAGE FROM THE OWNER: My initial thoughts about the coming year are mostly positive. Many of our customers are very busy and certainly the level of quoting is very high for this time of year. It seems we have…