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Canada Masonry Design Centre (CMDC)
A not-for-profit Canadian association created and funded by its for-profit masonry contractor members and industry partners to bridge the gap between the design community and the masonry construction industry. Its team of structural engineers provides complimentary technical advice, education, design software (MASS), and research to architects, engineers, and contractors across Canada.
📍 Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaEst. 2003✓ 86% first-party verified
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Atlantic Masonry Institute
Works with
AMI funding opened the CMDC Atlantic office in Dartmouth; Andrew Smith staffs both ('different hats on different days').
Andrew Smith
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His master's research at Dalhousie was CMDC-funded, which led directly to the AMI/CMDC Atlantic role.
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Building Structure Cost Comparison Study in Atlantic Canada: Multi-Residential Structures (Atlantic Canada Loadbearing Masonry Cost Study)
CompletedAuthor (written by CMDC on behalf of the Atlantic Masonry Institute; funded by CCMPA)
Models a 4-storey, 55-unit multi-residential building (~15,000 sq ft footprint) in Moncton, NB across three structural systems. Findings: loadbearing masonry carries only a 4-8% premium over wood frame and comes in 11% less than cast-in-place concrete; with underground parking the masonry building can be enclosed in 28 weeks (cited 50% faster than wood frame, 64% faster than concrete). Floor plan by Spitfire Design Co., structural design by Valron Engineers Inc., schedule/cost estimates by Acadian Construction. Full PDF hosted by CCMPA (published Sept 2020).
CMDC Atlantic / AMI office opening (Dartmouth, NS)
CompletedEstablished the CMDC Atlantic office in joint venture with the Atlantic Masonry Institute (AMI); hired a dedicated engineer (Andrew Smith) to serve the Atlantic provinces
Office currently at 238A Brownlow Ave., Modspace Suite 020, Dartmouth, NS B3B 2B4 (per CMDC contact page; earlier 99 Wyse Rd address appears in legacy listings). Engineer Andrew Smith, a Dalhousie graduate, has staffed it since 2018.
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Andrew Smith
Masonry Design Engineer / Masonry Design Coordinator, CMDC Atlantic Office (Dartmouth, NS)
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CMDC was founded in 2003 by the masonry contractors associations of northern and southern Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan, later growing to include Manitoba, British Columbia, Quebec, and the Atlantic region.
SOURCE ▸CMDC operates regional offices across Canada, including its head office in Mississauga, ON and its Atlantic office in Dartmouth, NS (plus Ottawa, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vancouver, and St-Hubert, QC).
SOURCE ▸The CMDC Atlantic office operates in a joint venture with the Atlantic Masonry Institute (AMI), founded in 2016, which runs an inter-provincial high-school masonry education program that began as a 2019 pilot at Hants East High School in Nova Scotia.
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