Patrick Chouinard

Patrick Chouinard is a Canadian entrepreneur, housing advocate, and founder of Element5, one of Canada’s leading mass timber manufacturers. With a career dedicated to innovation in sustainable construction, he has spearheaded numerous affordable and supportive housing projects across Ontario. Patrick is deeply committed to solving Canada’s housing crisis by advancing modern, scalable building solutions that are warm, efficient, and environmentally responsible. His work blends practical industry leadership with a mission-driven focus on serving society’s most vulnerable. A pioneer in applying Modern Methods of Construction, Patrick has championed offsite prefabrication, modular mass timber structures, and hybrid timber systems to accelerate the delivery of affordable housing. He has helped advance the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT), glulam, and panelized building envelopes to create repeatable, factory-manufactured mid-rise housing solutions that can be assembled rapidly on site. T