CONNECTION + DIRECTION
A new tomorrow for the real estate industry, today.
Beam is building a system that aligns the principles of real estate development with modern methods of construction (MMC) to streamline the delivery of mass timber homes. We connect vision with reality to deliver affordable, high-quality, sustainable homes, faster.
Photos Courtesy of Wesgroup
"The opportunity isn't finding another breakthrough. It's bringing the right people, expertise, and materials together through a better system."
– Graham Brewster, Founder
Meet Graham Brewster, Founder
Graham Brewster is a Vancouver-based real estate developer, innovator and builder, creating a new system to connect vision to reality for the mass timber industry.
Graham’s perspective is shaped by a long family lineage of builders in British Columbia, spanning multiple generations, and a deep familiarity with how buildings are actually brought from idea to completion. After more than six years at Wesgroup, where he led mass timber innovation, including the creation of 10-over-2 concept and the creation of the Western Mass Timber Alliance, he founded Beam Projects to address a fundamental question: why building homes remains slow, costly, and disconnected from the people it is meant to serve.
What is 10-over-2?
The 10-over-2 concept is a mass timber housing approach, developed by Graham during his time with Wesgroup, that replaces a typical concrete structure with a fully timber building over a two-storey concrete base.
Illustration Courtesy of Wesgroup
It was developed as a way to optimize the use of mass timber in mid-rise residential projects while staying within building code limits, improving construction speed, reducing embodied carbon, and simplifying structural systems compared to conventional methods. A principled framework for making mass timber mid-rise housing buildable, replicable, and ready for real-world development at scale.