On November 15th, COFI Japan’s Shawn Lawlor and Kevin Bews visited a new project under construction in Yamanashi Prefecture by Heart Builder, a medium size construction company based in Tokyo. The project is a two-storey 780 m² post and… more
Written by Gordon Hamilton Mon Nov 25, 2013
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Tai Jeong, director of Canada Wood Korea: “we face an uneven… more
Canada Wood Korea has successfully completed the University-based training program with college of Architectural Studies of Keimyung University in Daegu. This year, KMU named this program ‘2013 Wood Frame Construction Festival’… more
CWK jointly with the Korea Institute of Registered Architects (KIRA) provided a special 2-day training session as a continuing education for the member architects of KIRA on October 23 and 24, 2013.
Over 300 registered architects gained… more
The 14th Software Design Course is underway. As one of the CWK supported Association-Based Training programs, this 20 week course will be run from October 19, 2013 and continue through until March, 2014. A total of 17 enrolled WFC… more
CWK held its annual Korean Developer mission with 20 delegates comprising two big builders, nine independent developers, four architects and five distributors over a nine day period in Canada from October 2 to 10, 2013.
This year, Canada… more
On the morning of October
14, 2013, the Honorable Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources,
held a roundtable discussion with Korean wood construction industry’s
representatives consisting of the Korea Wood Construction… more
Economy
South Korea logged a trade surplus for the 21st straight month in October, 2013 thanks to relatively robust exports growth showing $4.9 billion in trade surplus resulted from 7.2% on-year increase to $50.5 billion in exports and… more
Economic Update:
Leading indicators pointed to continued economic recovery in August and September. The Bank of Japan “Tankan” Business confidence survey reported that large manufacturers dramatically improved their outlook to a… more
www.wooddesgin2013.kr is the ad hoc website of Canada Wood Korea recently opened in April, 2013 to introduce ‘Canada-Korea Wood Design Competition BEST5 and Canada Wood & Architecture Exhibition’ to celebrate the… more
The International Symposium on Timber Construction was held, October 1, 2013, in order to seek the right direction to spread the use of massive timber structures in Korea. This Symposium was held due to increasing demand of wooden… more
The Fourth University & College Based-Training of Canada Wood Korea (CWK) in FY 2013-14 was completed September 29, 2013 at BEXCO, Busan. This year, 41 architect students from Pukyong National University and Pusan National University… more
During the Busan Kyunghyang Housing Fair 2013, CWK in collaboration with Korea Institute of Registered Architects in Busan City (KIRA Busan) and Korea Institute of Architects in Busan City (KIA Busan) held a day long WFC Standard Design… more
Over the years, the DU-CWK WFC Workshop, has offered a unique chance to learn wood frame construction for DU students by combining practical training of building wood frame playhouses with class lectures, and has become an integral part of… more
Economic Update:
The South Korean economy continued to grow at the fastest pace in more than two years in the third quarter of 2013 on improving domestic demand and a pickup in facility investment. South Korea’s GDP grew 1.1% in… more
New Japanese species groups were proposed at the JAS dimension lumber standard revision committee meeting on October 16th, which included JSI, JSII and JSIII, consisting of Hinoki/Japanese Yellow Cedar, Sugi and Japanese Larch,… more
Based on the structural testing of SPF lumber in Post & Beam horizontal diaphragms with the FY2012-13 Canada Wood budget, evaluation work started this month with the technical experts from the top research community. The committee… more
On October 20th, the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM) conducted the third fire test for a full scale wooden 3-storey school building. This test is positioned as the final test among the three tests fully… more
A seminar for designers was held October 28th in the mountain city of Chongqing. The venue is arguably one of the most attractive glulam buildings in China. The large impressive clubhouse, built by the same company that built the Hebei… more
October 23-25, 2013 Beijing
The Canada Wood WFC booth consisted of attractive photos of outstanding projects in China and exposed 2×4 system wood framing. The whole design was quite perceptual intuitive and attractive; it gave the… more
