“Bringing Mass Timber to
Residential Missing Middle Buildings”
Held Wednesday, November 18, 2020
By Zoom
Time: 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Presenters:
Leith Moore, Co-Founder R-Hauz
Leith founded Waverley Projects Inc. in 2016 as a project management and development company focused on creative ground oriented infill development and midrise transit oriented development opportunities in the GTHA. Leith joined Fieldgate Homes in 2014 to lead the diversification of the Fieldgate Brand into urban communities and condominium homes. Fieldgate Urban is an integrated division of Fieldgate that acquires, develops, markets and builds its own midrise condominium housing projects.  Prior to this Leith was Vice President of Development for the Sorbara Group of Companies (1985-2014). Leith managed land development and servicing, low rise housing (Orchard Ridge Homes) and high rise condominium housing (Sorbara Group) for the company.  Leith is a graduate of the School Planning at the University of Waterloo and continues his relationship with the school as an Adjunct Professor. He is also Past Chair of BILD, Past President of OHBA and Past Chair of Evergreen. In addition, he has served on two Provincial Advisory Panels; the Golden Panel (Transit Investment Advisory Panel) and the Crombie Panel (Co-ordinated Land Use Planning Review).
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Mike Barker, Co-Founder R-Hauz
Michael has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of construction and development costing on projects of various sizes and stages of development. Michael Barker is past founder and principal of Altus Group acting as President of the Cost Consulting Group and being part of the Management Team and Board of Directors.
Michael has spent his career as a professional cost consultant and chartered quantity surveyor and intrinsically understands the economics of residential development. Simply put, the time and risk required to undertake residential development together with the byzantine entitlement process makes the creation of low-rise projects uneconomic. Having spent more than 30 years directly involved with medium and high-density residential development in the GTA I have witnessed the failure of both the City and its private developers to appropriately address the “missing middle”. Having a chance to help solve this problem as part of the R-Hauz executive team is going to be very rewarding and challenging.
A 30-minute networking session was held prior to the presentation.
