CWK in collaboration with the local architecture organizations, the Busan Institute of Registered Architects (BIRA) and the Korean Institute of Architects Busan Branch (KIABB), organized and delivered the most successful wood frame… more
Paul Newman, Chairman of Canada Wood Group, visited Korea at the end of February 2014 and toured GICO-DSK’s Bukhangang Dongyeonjae project site and sales center and had a meeting with Kwang Hoon Lee, CEO of DreamsiteKorea and Kyung… more
How the Japanese Physically Move Mountains
Japan recently marked the third anniversary since the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. I recently had the opportunity to drive up the Tohoku Coast to coordinate our third… more
Economy
Signal Housing Industry Risks
This past March the LDP government tabled a revision to the Dispatch Worker Law which allows for temporary labour to be employed in all job categories, up from two dozen categories at present. With a… more
When I first started building houses, my dad helped me. He started with a blank piece of paper and a pencil. “This is a stud,” he said, as he drew a straight line on the page. I shook my head.
A few lines later, he… more
CWK has successfully completed University-based training program with the Department of Architecture of Korea University (KU) in Seoul. KU (http://www.korea.edu), founded in 1905, is widely acknowledged as one of the country’s… more
CWK in collaboration with the Embassy of Canada to Korea hosted a Green Building Seminar and Networking
Dinner to promote the use of wood, wood frame construction, wood-framed infill
wall (Wood Wall), Super E House and large scale wood… more
The interests in high performance homes are growing among design and construction professionals and Super E House Standard is best suited in filling the gap to the path of the net zero energy housing target set by the Korean… more
23 participants comprising of architects and developers, joined a recent mission to Vancouver, Whistler and Prince George from March 2 ~ 9, 2014.
Since the majority of them are professionals in the construction industry, they were… more
In the second week of March, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Park Geun-Hye of South Korea announced the conclusion of negotiations in the new free trade agreement between Canada and Korea.
On March 11, Ambassador… more
Economy
South Korea’s economy remains on a ‘moderate’ recovery path as domestic demand picks up and overall financial market conditions become stable based on the latest indicators for exports, consumption, investment,… more
The design competition for wood structures resistant to earthquakes and typhoons was held in Xianyou, Fujian, March 21~24, 2014, and was funded by World Wood Day Foundation. Ten teams attended the final competition which comprised… more
Canada Wood had a booth displaying different wood-frame construction and heavy timber projects both in China and in Canada. Mr. Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister of MOHURD visited our booth and showed great interest. Leonard introduced the… more
Economy
China’s manufacturing activity has been contracting since January. Against this nerve-wracking backdrop, Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei did something that was once unthinkable for a senior official.
Earlier this month, Mr…. more
Who would have thought that a married couple that previously participated in COFI’s Elderly Care Tour Mission to Canada would be moving into a 2×4 custom home four years down the road… fast forward to 2014… and that is exactly… more
A new large platform frame elderly care facility – the third largest of its kind – opens its doors. And the name of this particular project might ring a bell with a few of our readers, as you were probably on hand when BC… more
As previously reported, new Japanese species groups have been proposed for the first time in a revision committee for JAS600; the Japanese Agricultural Standard for dimension lumber. For this revision, researchers in FFPRI1 conducted… more
As one of the key Canada Wood technical development initiatives, COFI Tokyo has been working on Midply Wall System since 2010. The Midply Wall System was originally invented in 1998 by Dr. Erol Varoglu of Forintek Corp (now… more
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) established a new JAS standard for cross laminated timber in December 2013 and enacted it in January, 2014. It took 20 months to draft the new JAS 3079 standard. Due to the… more
On February 4th, COFI Japan’s staff visited a unique 2×4 fireproof building under construction near the main Kawasaki train station in Kanagawa Prefecture. The project is being constructed by a medium size construction company,… more
