This document includes case studies on the Elkford Community Conference Centre, the North Shore Credit Union Environmental Learning Centre and the City of North Vancouver Civic Centre Renovation. All three projects benefited from BC provincial funding support through the Wood Enterprise Coalition (WEC) demonstration project program. WEC was put in place under the province’s Wood First Initiative,1 and has a mandate to help bring newly developed technologies, as well as innovative uses of new and traditional wood products, to the marketplace. The emphasis is on commercial viability of non-traditional solutions, in particular, innovations in commercial and institutional buildings.

The three projects in the current case study were selected by the demonstration project program by virtue of their innovative structural or architectural applications of wood-based products, including but not limited to the use of cross-laminated timber systems or other premanufactured components and systems, and wood components that serve multiple functions.