ICBC headquarters office to relocate to new 10-storey mass-timber office building next to SkyTrain VCC-Clark Station in Vancouver

By Kenneth Chan
Daily Hive – Urbanized Vancouver
June 13, 2024
Category: Wood, Paper & Green Building
Region: Canada, Canada West

After conducting a comprehensive search across the Metro Vancouver region for a suitable headquarters location, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) confirmed today its decision to relocate its corporate hub to The Hive at 2150 Keith Drive. This is located immediately adjacent to VCC-Clark Station on SkyTrain’s Millennium Line… Currently under construction at the northeast corner of the intersection of East 6th Avenue and Keith Drive, The Hive will be a 10-storey, mass-timber office building. …The Hive does not have any structural cores, as its honeycomb-shaped exterior serves the dual purpose of fulfilling aesthetics and functionality to push the innovative boundaries of such buildings. The honey-combed-shaped timber frame is a perimeter-braced seismic structure that connects with four internal cross-laminated timber (CLT) shearwalls. This structural exoskeleton will be the tallest timber-braced frame in North America.

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