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Alberta Massive Wood Symposium
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All major aspects relating to Massive Wood panels and assemblies will be discussed: architectural and structural design, manufacturing, connections, fire safety, acoustics, durability, and environmental performance.
Wednesday, April 18th Edmonton
Fairmont Hotel Macdonald – Empire Ballroom,10065 – 100 Street
Friday, April 20th Calgary
Calgary Telus Convention Centre – Macleod Hall CD, 120 Ninth Ave SE
2012 Reference Guide: Wood Use in Low-Rise Educational Buildings - Ontario
 The province of Ontario boasts an important inventory of publically funded school buildings - 4,900 of them. Wood-frame construction is an important construction option for school buildings, as well as an important choice toward meeting a sustainable future.
Mid-rise Construction in British Columbia
 Modern six-storey light-frame wood construction in British Columbia incorporates highly-detailed, researched and safe solutions. The engineering technology being adapted in the province is positioning BC at the forefront of the North American wood-frame construction industry.
Living with Lakes Centre
Located in Sudbury, Ontario, the Vale Living with Lakes Centre for Freshwater Restoration provides researchers and technicians access to laboratories, classrooms, offices, environmental bays and a watershed restoration facility.
Banf Recreation Centre
Completed to the LEED Silver standard, the redeveloped Banff Recreation Centre has a new curling rink, a refurbished hockey arena, a new NHL-sized hockey arena, and new meeting rooms, lounges and a concourse.   NEW Media Release Tall Wood Report
This new feasibility study illustrates how Massive Timber products and systems
can provide viable and sustainable alternatives for the construction
of 10 to 30 storey Buildings. Celebrating Excellence in Wood Structures
To order your copy of the "2009-10 North American Wood Design Award Winners" book, click here.
 NEW! 2012 Wood WORKS! BC Wood Design Award winners
Media Release - Fire during construction phase is not cause to question building design
 Wood WORKS! is a national campaign to increase the use of wood in commercial, industrial and institutional construction. In North America, this market for wood is valued at US$20 billion.
The Canadian Wood Council leads this program with funding support from the wood industry, the federal government and provincial governments across Canada.
What is the Vision?
The vision of Wood WORKS! is to have a wood culture in Canada, where wood is our first choice and best value building material for all types of construction.
What does Wood WORKS! do?
- We build pride in our wood culture through awareness and education.
- We build proficiency in using wood through training, networking and technical support.
- We celebrate ‘wood champions’ who inspire excellence in building with wood.
What is a Wood Culture?
- Is wood our first choices and best value building material?
- Is wood valued as the most sustainable building material?
- Do we produce competitive products and building systems?
- Do we excel at building with wood?
Yes to all these questions defines our wood culture.
We know we have a wood culture when…
- Wood is our first choice and best value building material.
- Wood is valued as the most sustainable building material.
- We produce competitive products and building systems.
- We excel at building with wood.
- The world views us as leaders in building with wood.
Build our economy by building with wood
Canada is blessed with its abundant forest resources, which covers fully half of our land mass and represents 10-percent of the world’s forests. As world leaders in forestry technology, and as responsible stewards of forest ecosystems, Canada’s economic fabric is strengthened – and greened – through our forest economy.
In 2009 the forest sector employed 605,000 Canadians which translates into 1 job in 30 in Canada, and created almost $74 billion of value in goods and services. Forest products have long been Canada's single most important export.
Economic prosperity is not limited to traditional lumber products, but includes research and development of new technologies, advanced engineered structural products and manufactured building systems. As a responsible world population grapples with climate change – and embraces the twin concepts of sustainability and building green – we are poised for continued prosperity as the global leader in forestry and wood. More than finished wood products, Canada’s forests offer an array of environmental, economical, social and cultural benefits.
The world is watching
Canada's forests play a major role in the delicate balance of life, supporting two thirds of Canada’s 140,000 species of plants, animals and microorganisms.
Proudly, Canada leads the world with sustainable forestry management practices. In 2010, over 150 million hectares of Canada's forests were certified as being sustainably managed by one or more of three globally recognized certification standards. With more certified lands than any other country, Canada leads the world in third-party sustainable forest management certification.
The world is watching – and it likes what it sees. Canada is building a wood culture, where the world sees us as leaders in building with wood, where we produce competitive products and building systems and where we embrace wood as our first choice and best value building material. Best of all, we do all of that as part of our stewardship of vibrant, healthy sustainable forests.
Click here to learn more about the State of Canada's Forests.
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