Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

Course Overview

WoodWorks and the BC Office of Mass Timber Implementation present a brief, but detailed technical webinar focusing on the recently adopted provincial code provisions.

Learning Objectives

Beyond the introduction of a new, 18 storey limit, you will:

  1. Learn the additional changes for various different occupancies, building heights, and construction requirements that will help you enhance your future projects with exposed or encapsulated mass timber. 
  2. Gain insights into the national landscape, understanding how these code amendments might reverberate across other provinces in Canada.

Course Video

Speaker Bio

Cameron McDonald

Technical Solutions Lead, Office of Mass Timber Implementation

Ministry of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation

Cam is a former level 3 building official and BOABC member. He now works in the Office of Mass Timber Implementation, under the Ministry of Jobs, Economic Development and Innovation, as the Lead of Technical Solutions and played an active role in the development of the new code provisions for EMTC in BC.

Derek Ratzlaff, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE 

Technical Director, WoodWorks BC

Canadian Wood Council 

Course Curriculum

Lessons