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Combustible construction

...Code of Canada (NBC) categorizes wood buildings as ‘combustible construction’. Despite being termed combustible, common construction techniques can give wood frame construction fire-resistance ratings up to two hours. When designed...

i -Joists

Prefabricated wood I-joists are proprietary structural wood members that consist of fingerjoined solid sawn lumber or laminated veneer lumber (LVL) flanges attached to a plywood or oriented strand board (OSB)...

Wood design in the National Building Code of Canada

...expected to foster a spirit of innovation and create new opportunities for Canadian manufacturers. Requirements related to the specification of structural wood products and wood building systems that relates to...

Laminate Veneer Lumber

...use LVL in applications where appearance is important, common wood finishing techniques can be used to accent grain and to protect the wood surface. In finished appearance, LVL resembles plywood...

Grades

...knots ability to hold nails and screws There are more than a hundred softwood species in North America. To simplify the supply and use of structural softwood lumber, species having...

BP4 – Wood-Frame Housing: A North-American Marvel

...wood for exposed applications like cabinetry, flooring, furniture and moldings. Not only is wood builder-friendly, it is also environmentally friendly. Wood products take less energy to manufacture, affect the environment...

FRAMEWORK for Success: Prefabricated Wood Systems and Design Innovation

...evolved from a truss-fabricator-focused group into Ontario’s leading voice for structural wood component manufacturing. Today, the province is home to 70 certified truss plants and 40 wood-panel manufacturers, with engineered...

CSA S-6 Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code

...wood piles, wood cribs and wood trestles. The standard does not apply to falsework or formwork. CSA S-6 considers design of wood members under flexure, shear, compression and bearing. In...

The Role of the Wood Industry in Climate Change Mitigation

...of Wood in Sustainable Construction: Objective: To understand the environmental benefits of using wood in construction, including its properties as a low-carbon material. Relevance: Grasping why wood is considered a...

Design and Construction of Permanent Wood Foundations – The Buildings Show 2025

...from the Department of Wood Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the past Chair of the CSA Subcommittee on Permanent Wood Foundations and acted as a primary...

Vertical Movement in Wood Platform Structures: Movement Prediction

...this series of fact sheets. Different from solid sawn wood products, Engineered Wood Products (EWP) are usually manufactured with MC levels close to or even lower than the equilibrium moisture...

Environmental product declarations (EPDs)

...Canadian Oriented Strand Board View Resource An Industry Average EPD for Canadian Softwood Plywood View Resource A Regionalized Industry Average EPD for Canadian Wood Trusses View Resource Stakeholders within the...

Promoting Health and Wellness with Wood Architecture

The year 2020 will forever be synonymous with COVID-19. After experiencing the pandemic and its ripple effects, few would question the importance of health and wellness. What...

Biophilic Design, CWC

Wood in Civic Buildings

This case study examines two wood buildings, both with primary retail commercial occupancies, but which employ different mass timber products to achieve very different...

Civic Buildings, Woodworks

Low‐Rise Commercial Mass Timber Design Case Study

Resource Description This case study presents a 3-storey mass timber office building designed with a Glulam post-and-beam main structural system supporting CLT floor and roof...

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/...

Tall-Wood Buildings

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 25, issue 102

This issue of Wood Design & Building explores how intentional design can carry culture, support community, and foster connection. The projects featured here demonstrate...

Light-frame Trusses

A truss is a structural frame relying on a triangular arrangement of webs and chords to transfer loads to reaction points. This geometric arrangement of the members gives...

Light Frame Construction

Connections

As for all other building materials, a critical aspect of wood structures is the manner by which members are connected. Wood products are building materials which are easily...

Joinery & Connectors, Structural Engineering

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...

Engineered Wood Products (EWP), Wood Products

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...

Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Engineered Wood Products (EWP), Wood Products

Oriented Strand Board (OSB)

Oriented Strand Board (OSB) is a widely used, versatile structural wood panel. OSB makes efficient use of forest resources, by employing less valuable, fast-growing species....

Engineered Wood Products (EWP), Wood Products

Mass Timber Buildings and Fire Safety

Course Overview Welcome, this course is a case study of a number of educational buildings in both the United States and Canada and how wood used in the construction of these...

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 25, issue 101

Every issue of Wood Design & Building tells a different story about how wood is shaping contemporary construction. Some editions revolve around a clear theme such as our...

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