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  • CWC, Long-term Care, Norview Lodge, Parkwood Mennonite, Senior Living

Long-term Care Facilities – Norview Lodge & Parkwood Mennonite Home

  • Brock Commons, Case Study, Tallwood House, UBC, Vancouver Campus

Brock Commons Tallwood House – University of British Columbia Vancouver Campus

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Mid-Rise 2.0 – Innovative Approaches to Mid-Rise Wood Frame Construction

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Seismic Design with Wood: Solutions for British Columbia Schools

Celebrating Edmonton’s Wood Architecture

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Wood in Civic Buildings

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Wood in Commercial Buildings

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Wood Innovation and Design Centre – Prince George, BC

  • Basics, CWC, Platform Structures, Vertical Movement, Wood Construction

Vertical Movement in Wood Platform Structures: Basics

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Vertical Movement in Wood Platform Structures: Design and Detailing Solutions

Vertical Movement in Wood Platform Structures: Movement Prediction

  • CWC, Ontario, Reference Guide, Structural Engineering, wood bridges

Ontario Wood Bridge Reference Guide

Glossary
Canadian Preservation Industry
Durability Research and Development
Wood’s Durable Heritage
Wood Advantages
Mid-Rise Buildings
Bridges
FAQs
National Model Codes in Canada
Wood design in the National Building Code of Canada
Supplemental Treatment
Fasteners

Glossary

Acrylic A type of water-borne coating product containing acrylic polymers. Alkyd A type of polyester resin. Term often used to signify solvent-borne coatings, e.g., oil...

Canadian Preservation Industry

Canada has had a wood preservation industry for about 100 years.  Canada is tied with the UK as the world’s second largest producer of treated wood (the USA is first...

Durability Research and Development

FPInnovations has been field testing the performance of treated wood products for years. Click one of these categories for performance data from our field tests....

Wood’s Durable Heritage

There’s no reason a wood structure can’t last virtually forever – or, at least hundreds of years, far longer than we may actually need the building. With a good...

Wood Advantages

Wood is resistant to some of the chemicals destructive to steel and concrete. For example, wood is often the material of choice when exposed to: organic compounds, hot or...

Mid-Rise Buildings

In the early 1900s, light-frame wood construction and heavy timber, up to ten-storeys in height, was commonplace in major cities throughout Canada. The longevity and...

Bridges

Timber bridges have a long history as vital components of the roadway, railway and logging road networks within Canada. Dependent on the availability of materials...

FAQs

What do the experts have to say about wood-frame mid-rise construction? Graham Finch, Building Science Research Engineer Michael Green, Principal, Michael Green Architecture...

National Model Codes in Canada

On behalf of the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes (CCBFC) the National Research Council (NRC) Codes Canada publishes national model codes documents that set out...

Wood design in the National Building Code of Canada

The current edition of the National Building Code of Canada (NBC) is published in an objective-based format intended to allow more flexibility when evaluating non-traditional...

Supplemental Treatment

Supplementary treatment may be added wherever on-site cutting or drilling of wood is unavoidable, or where it is suspected the original protection measures may be inadequate....

Fasteners

Fasteners, Connectors and Flashing for Wood Treated With Copper-Based Preservatives The presence of moisture is a precondition for corrosion of metals. Treated wood is...

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