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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

...the Canadian Wood Council publication Wood Highway Bridges from 1992 are typically referenced by designers of timber bridges in Ontario. This new reference is intended to provide updated background information...

Surface Pre-treatment

...deep into the wood. In New Zealand, framing lumber has been treated with borates using this process since the 1950s. Dip-diffusion works well with wood species that are mostly sapwood...

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

...built up wood members, tie downs and plywood sheathing. The challenges come with the coordination of each discipline: architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical to position wood shear walls and structural...

Introduction to Wood Design

Resource Description This comprehensive course package provides educators with a ready-to-use framework for teaching structural wood design, aligned with CSA O86 and the Wood Design Manual. Suitable for advanced undergraduate...

Timber and Off-Site Construction

...Bio Derek Ratzlaff, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE Technical Director WoodWorks BC Derek began his career in the wood industry in high school working on single and multi-family light wood frame construction....

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

...of the new code provisions for EMTC in BC. Derek Ratzlaff, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., PE Technical Director, WoodWorks BC Canadian Wood Council Derek began his career in the wood industry in...

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

Wood products have long been the building materials of choice for home construction in North America. The wood-frame construction system has a solid history of producing housing of the highest...

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

...construction has proven it can stand the test of time. The art and technology of wood building, however, has been changing through time. Can modern wood-frame buildings perform as well?...

CLT Design Considerations

...P.Eng., MIEust, CPEng., RPEQ, Senior Wood Technologist / Structural Engineer Wood Research and Development (WRD) Oregon, USA and Caboolture, QLD, Australia Dr. Dan Tingley graduated from University of New Brunswick...

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Course Overview The Aspen Art Museum, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, includes a long-span three-dimensional wood space-frame roof. Ban’s charge was to create a wood space frame with spans of...

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Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Reaching one hundred issues is a milestone worthy of both celebration and reflection. Wood Design & Building, once upon a time called Wood le Bois, began as a modest trade...

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,...

WoodWorks at The Buildings Show 2026

WoodWorks returns to The Buildings Show in 2026 bringing technical expertise and industry insight through a new partnership with CWC.

Controlling Termites

Fortunately for Canada, most of this country lies north of the limit for termites on the North American continent. However, because termites and people both prefer the warmer...

Moisture & Decay, Treatments

Applying Treatment

Holes drilled to apply depot, supplementary or remedial treatments should be on vertical surfaces or undersides, where possible, to avoid creating additional routes for...

Treatments

Feasibility of Point-Supported Mass Timber

Tall wood buildings offer tremendous potential for low-carbon, high-performance construction, but they also introduce a distinct set of challenges not typically encountered...

Mass Timber, Woodworks

Alternative Solutions Guide

While alternative solutions have been an important feature of the National Building Code of Canada since 2005, there remains a lack of understanding among building...

Structural Engineering, Wood Design

80 Atlantic Avenue – Toronto, Ontario

Ontario’s first mass timber commercial building in over 100 years, 80 Atlantic pioneers a new urban office typology for potentially many more timber-frame projects across...

Residential Buildings, Woodworks

Green Gables Visitors’ Centre – Cavendish, PE

Mark Twain called Anne of Green Gables, “The sweetest creation of child life yet written.” He sent the author Lucy Maud Montgomery a letter of praise, congratulating her...

Civic Buildings, Woodworks

The Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce – Edmonton, Alberta

Located in Edmonton, Alberta, the Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce was designed to be the province’s first “net-zero energy” commercial building and...

Civic Buildings, Woodworks

Delivering Mid-Rise Housing Solutions – Part 2 Mass Timber

Course Overview WoodWorks Ontario proudly presents Delivering Mid-Rise Housing Solutions Part 2: Mass Timber. YWKW is a supportive housing project that obtained funding from...

Unlocking Affordable Timber Innovations in Structure, Prefabrication, and Code

Course Overview Bond Tower is a 7-storey mixed-use prototype that asks a critical question: how can mass timber be made cost-effective in the Prairies, where supply chains...

Halsa 230 Royal York: Ontario’s Tallest Mass Timber Residential Building

Course Overview Halsa 230 Royal York is setting new standards as Toronto’s pioneering 9-storey prefabricated mass timber rental building, demonstrating the viability of...

Operations Centre – Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

Canada’s newest nationally-protected area, Parks Canada’s Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, includes 15 islands and inter-tidal areas flanked by the large urban centres...

Civic Buildings, Woodworks

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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

Surface Pre-treatment

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

Introduction to Wood Design

Timber and Off-Site Construction

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

CLT Design Considerations

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Canadian Preservation Industry

WoodWorks at The Buildings Show 2026

Controlling Termites

Applying Treatment

Feasibility of Point-Supported Mass Timber

Alternative Solutions Guide

80 Atlantic Avenue – Toronto, Ontario

Green Gables Visitors’ Centre – Cavendish, PE

The Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce – Edmonton, Alberta

Delivering Mid-Rise Housing Solutions – Part 2 Mass Timber

Unlocking Affordable Timber Innovations in Structure, Prefabrication, and Code

Halsa 230 Royal York: Ontario’s Tallest Mass Timber Residential Building

Operations Centre – Gulf Islands National Park Reserve

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ONTARIO WOOD BRIDGE REFERENCE GUIDE

Surface Pre-treatment

Hamilton and Oyster River Fire Halls – Richmond and Comox, BC

Introduction to Wood Design

Timber and Off-Site Construction

Building Code Evolution: Understanding the Latest Mass Timber Provisions

BP3 – Termite Control and Wood-Frame Buildings

BP1 – Moisture and Wood-Frame Buildings

CLT Design Considerations

Aspen Art Museum: Creating an Innovative Wood Structure

Wood Design & Building Magazine, vol 24, issue 100

Canadian Preservation Industry

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