ABOUT THE CANADIAN WOOD COUNCIL
Founded in 1959, the Canadian Wood Council (CWC) is Canada’s unifying voice for the wood products industry. As a national federation of associations, our members represent hundreds of manufacturers across the country.
Our mission is to support our members by accelerating market demand for wood products and championing responsible leadership through excellence in codes, standards, and regulations. We also deliver technical support and knowledge transfer for the construction sector through our market leading WoodWorks program.
The CWC is active in a technical capacity in all areas of:
BUILDING CODES
CWC participates extensively in the development process of the Building Codes in Canada.
DESIGN STANDARDS
CWC holds the Secretariat for Canada’s wood design standard (CSA O86 “Engineering Design in Wood”), providing both technical expertise and administrative support for its development.
PRODUCT STANDARDS
CWC is involved in the development of Canadian, U.S. and international standards for its wood building product producers.
TEST STANDARDS
CWC is involved in developing Canadian, U.S. and international test standards in areas that affect wood products, such as fire performance.
MARKET DEVELOPMENT
A core role of the CWC is to act as the conduit for the transfer of technical knowledge for the people (builders, architects, engineers) who specify wood in construction.
STAKEHOLDER SUPPORT
CWC maintains close ties with members, potential members, companies and design professionals and provides these groups with a forum for discussion on issues of importance.
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
We believe equity, diversity, and inclusion is a practice of ensuring persons of all characteristics can participate and achieve at CWC. Our main objective is to define and support a caring and inclusive culture in the workplace to foster creativity and openness, invite different backgrounds, strengths and perspectives, embrace other’s ideas and contributions, and as a result, make CWC more relevant and valuable to CWC members and the broader stakeholder group it interacts with.
We act by maintaining an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee that is responsible for implementing this policy and developing a strategic framework for putting this Action Plan into practice. The EDI Committee will develop specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely objectives that will ensure that progress is measurable so CWC can assess whether the Action Plan implementation is working. The EDI Committee will promote its work and continue to monitor, evaluate, and plan EDI initiatives and will work with management to update our policy as often as required. Click to read the full PDF
