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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

  • Case Study, CWC, Innovative Design, Mid Rise, Mid-rise Construction, midrise, Wood Frame

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

  • British Columbia, Case Study, Schools, Seismic Design, Wood Solutions

Seismic Design with Wood: Solutions for British Columbia Schools

Celebrating Edmonton’s Wood Architecture

  • Case Study, Civic Buildings, CWC, Public Architecture, Wood Design

Wood in Civic Buildings

  • Case Study, Commercial Buildings, CWC, Sustainable Design, Wood Construction

Wood in Commercial Buildings

  • Case Study, CWC, Innovation Centre, Prince George, Wood Design

Wood Innovation and Design Centre – Prince George, BC

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

Vertical Movement in Wood Platform Structures: Basics

  • CWC, Design Solutions, Detailing, Platform Structures, Vertical Movement

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

Parallel Strand Lumber
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)
Glulam
Glulam
Plank Decking
Tall Wood Buildings
Mid-Rise Buildings
Bridges
Tall Wood Buildings – Research
Mid-Rise Buildings – Research
Green
Energy Efficiency
Climate Change

Parallel Strand Lumber

Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL) provides attributes such as high strength, high stiffness and dimensional stability. The manufacturing process of...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT)

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a proprietary engineered wood product that is prefabricated using several layers of kiln-dried lumber, laid flat-wise, and glued together on...
Glulam

Glulam

Glulam (glued-laminated timber) is an engineered structural wood product that consists of multiple individual layers of dimension lumber that are glued together under...

Plank Decking

Plank decking may be used to span farther and carry greater loads than panel products such as plywood and oriented strand board (OSB). Plank decking is often used where the...

Tall Wood Buildings

With advanced construction technologies and modern mass timber products such as glued-laminated timber, cross-laminated timber and structural composite lumber, building tall...

Mid-Rise Buildings

When it comes to wood construction, many people think of basic 2×4 framing, panels or flooring for single-family homes. However, advances in wood science and building...

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...

Tall Wood Buildings – Research

Tests Current research includes the World’s largest mass timber fire test – click here for updates on the test results currently being conducted https://firetests.cwc.ca/...

Mid-Rise Buildings – Research

Studies General “The Historical Development of the Building Size Limits in the National Building Code of Canada“, by Sereca for CWC (2015)  (17 Mb) Structural &...

Green

Wood is the only major building material that grows naturally and is renewable. With growing pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment, building...

Energy Efficiency

Of all the energy used in North America, it is estimated that 30 to 40 percent is consumed by buildings. In Canada, the majority of operational energy in residential...

Climate Change

Concerns about climate change are encouraging decarbonization of the building sector, including the use of construction materials responsible for fewer greenhouse gas (GHG)...

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