• Industry

    Engineer

  • Services offered

    Engineer - Structural, Computational Design

  • Has Experience with these building types:

    Assembly (Worship, Restaurant, Theater), Business (Office), Civic (Recreational), Educational, Factory/Industrial (warehouse, storage, parking, etc.), Government, Hotel/Motel, Institutional, Multi-Family (Apartments, Condos), Transportation (Airports, Train or Subway Stations)

  • Has Experience with these material types:

    Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Timber-Frame / Post and Beam, Heavy Timber Decking, Hybrid (wood with steel or concrete), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL), Wood-Concrete Composite Systems, Light-Frame

  • Has experience with these construction types:

    I-A, I-B, II-A, II-B, III-A, III-B, IV-A, IV-B, IV-C, IV-HT, V-A, V-B

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Lucas Epp is a structural engineer with significant mass timber experience across North America.  He is passionate about timber engineering and has built a team at StructureCraft of more than 30 structural engineers and computational designers hailing from around the world.  Prior to his return to Vancouver, Lucas spent 7 formative years abroad working in London, China, and New Zealand.  With a strong creative bent, his expertise with complex geometry and Rhino/Grasshopper has led him to be involved in projects where synergy between architecture and structure drives the design.

At StructureCraft, Lucas has led the engineering and delivery of many signature mass timber structures, including T3 Minneapolis and the recently completed University of Idaho Basketball Arena, one of America’s first freeform timber arenas.  He spearheaded the launch of dowel laminated timber (DLT) and was responsible for technical development and the design of a new manufacturing line to produce this product.

Lucas has lectured across the USA and Canada, and has taught at the Architectural Association, ETH Zurich, Imperial College, and the University of British Columbia.  He is involved in several code committees including CSA O86 and the ICC Ad Hoc Committee on Tall Wood Buildings, is an author of the Nail Laminated Timber Design Guide and is currently involved in writing a new Mass Timber Floor Vibration Design Guide with WoodWorks.

Innovative Light-Frame and Mass Timber Project Portfolio:
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T3 Wedgewood-Houston

Nashville, TN

KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence

Kelowna, BC

Retail Village at Sycamore & Oak

Washington, DC

10-Story NHERI Shake Table Test

San Diego, CA

The Collective at Canton – 40TEN

Baltimore, MD

T3 Sterling Road

Toronto, ON

619 Ponce

Atlanta, GA

Arena Stage Theater Facade

Washington, DC

Nashville MLS Entrance Canopies

Nashville, TN

Tsawwassen First National Community Center

Delta, BC

Railyard Flats

Sioux Falls, SD

Nashville Warehouse Company Office

Nashville, TN

Hotel Magdalena

Austin, TX

Idaho Central Credit Union Arena

Moscow, ID

DC Southwest Library

Washington, DC

T3 Atlanta West Midtown

Atlanta, GA

T3 Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation Center for Conservation

Houston, TX

111 East Grand

Des Moines, IA

1030 Music Row

Nashville, TN

Tsingtao Pearl Visitors Center

Rizhao Shi, Shandong Sheng

The Soto

San Antonio, TX
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