shines through in every job we undertake, large and small. From classic log homes to timberframe hybrids and trusses, we embrace challenge, accommodating a variety of log and timber building styles and techniques. Our technical knowledge and solid business practices help build lasting trust while meeting layout, site, budget and esthetic requirements. Log & Timber Works believes in sustainable forestry and selectively harvests only within designated areas with least impact on the environment.

Company owner and builder Pete Doucette has been handcrafting log structures since 1976. He is especially known for his unique problem solving abilities, creativity, and professional concern for his clients and partners.


About Pete Doucette

"Exquisite workmanship, innovation, and finely orchestrated project management define Pete Doucette’s leadership in the log and timberframe industry.”

For over 30 years Pete Doucette’s passion for excellence has forged a stellar reputation in log and timberframe construction. With hundreds of homes and buildings to his credit, Pete’s extensive experience and talent make him a first choice among architects, contractors and clients.

Pete’s work can be seen across North America, from modest-sized direct-to-client log and timberframe homes to multi-million dollar projects.

A qualified building instructor and industry consultant, Pete Doucette built his first log home in 1976 and his first timberframe in 1988. He has consulted for and worked with some of the most recognized contractors and architects in Canada and the United States. Pete is distinguished for his exceptional problem solving capabilities. In fact, when it comes to unique elements or difficult problems, Pete gets the call, whether it is his specialty hand-adzed trusses found in Jackson Hole’s most stunning and prestigious home or critical restoration projects involving heritage log, dovetail and timberframe structures.

Skilled in supervising multiple projects and crews, from design to material acquisition and construction to after-sales service, Pete is an accomplished manager who trains and supervises builders while working closely with contractors, sub-trades, architects, and clients to ensure their dreams and goals are reflected in the final product, on time and on budget. His uncommon breadth of expertise includes reassembly of buildings (export, island, and remote fly-in projects), carpentry and finishing, and diverse specialty skills such as installing Structural Insulated Panels for timberframe enclosure systems and his overscribe and European log building techniques.

Since 1995 Pete has been helping companies implement timberframing into their own offerings, including Bannon Log Homes (ON), Unique Timber Corp. (Lumby, BC), Pacific Sky Log Homes (Vernon, BC), Sun Peaks Log Homes (Kamloops, BC), Eagle Mountain Construction Management Ltd. (Lumby, BC), and Pristine Log Homes & Manufacturing Ltd. (Lumby, BC).

Background:

From 1980 to 1996, Pete Doucette built a lasting reputation for quality design and construction emphasizing log, dovetail, vertical log and timberframe structures with his highly successful Ontario-based business, Doucette Log Building Ltd., and its division, Grand River Timberframes.

Pete studied under some of the most recognized names in the log and timberframe industry. In 1979, he completed with distinction comprehensive log builder courses at the renowned Pat Wolfe Log Building School. Pete’s ongoing pursuit to broaden his credentials resulted in his successful completion of countless programs, including Passive Solar Energy/Heating, Visual Stress Grading (for materials selection), Ted Benson's timberframe building course, many supervisory and business courses, AutoCAD, and Timber Framers' Guild of North America conferences .


Associations:

Proud to be a supporter of the
Timber Framers' Guild of North America

Projects:
Guelph Covered Bridge project (1992)
The Habitat for Humanity project (1989)