With Alberta’s SRD grant, CWK in collaboration with Media Wood held a full daylong WFC technical seminar during the Korea Wood Show 2014 to deliver wood technology and promote Canadian wood products to professionals and consumers…. more
Community Centre to be completed by October 2014
In order to enhance successful sales and to show their commitment to “Bukhangan Dongyeonjae Project” at Gapyeong Daljeonri, GICO (Gyeonggi Urban Innovation Corporation) has… more
Economy
The South Korean economy grew 0.6% in the second quarter of 2014 from three months earlier, growing at the slowest pace in five quarters mainly due to sluggish domestic demand that was hit by the mid-April Sewol ferry accident… more
July 23rd , Chengdu China. 60 Chinese Participants
This event was hosted in partnership with Greenland and the Canadian Consulate in Chongqing. The purpose of the event was the create a social gathering for wood frame company… more
July 19th-21st – Qingdao Trade Show
CW designed a wood house with complete decoration and framing section to show to public what is common in North America. The whole design was quite perceptual intuition and attractive, it gave the… more
After two years of working very closely with the developer – “Regalia Hotel Group” for the “Mo Gan Mountain Regalia Resort Development” project, construction of wood frame resort hotel villas has now… more
Inside a historic wooden church in Beijing, Canada Wood and WFC Alliance had a joint press conference to announce the launch of a WFC design and project competition to over 35 attending general and trade media. A one-on-one interview… more
Economy
Government financial reforms could ease local government debt fears
In late June, China’s politburo agreed to fiscal and taxation reforms that were outlined
at last year’s Third Plenum, setting a deadline for implementation at… more
Following the acquisition of third party evaluation certificate for the SPF horizontal diaphragm with SPF dimension lumber in post and beam structures, COFI held a series of meetings with senior executives of HOWTEC*1 a publisher of Grey… more
COFI Japan commenced work on developing a large scale structures design guide for platform frame construction in Japan. As part of our FY2014/15 Canada Wood Market Access program, the project is a joint effort with the Japan 2×4… more
Economy
As was widely expected, April’s consumption tax increase from 5 to 8% is precipitating economic contraction in the second quarter. Although Japan posted impressive real annualised GDP growth of 6.7% between January and March,… more
July 6-15, 2014: Kelowna, Calgary & Vancouver
Twenty-five Korean architects visited Western Canada to learn more about wood design and construction. The delegation visited 25 diverse residential, commercial, industrial, educational,… more
CW visited Quacent on June 25th . Quacent is a Chinese company from Dalian with connections to Canada. They build light wood frame and SIP panel designs. They have distinguished themselves from other builders in China by focusing on their… more
During this two week training course, participants were introduced to the basics of wood frame construction, including topics such as structural design, fire safety, waterproofing, and simple decoration. In addition to attending… more
According to the Shanghai Daily, SHANGHAI’S Biyun International Community where Dream Home Canada—Canada Wood Office is located is representing China in an international competition showcasing good practice in residential… more
The topic of this green economy salon was the future of forest economy. It was hosted by ECO-NOMY Magazine who concentrated on the content of sustainable development.
This salon was also part of 2014 International Student Conference, which… more
China Economy
The World Bank issued a June update on China’s economy with the following findings:
China’s economic growth is gradually slowing as the structural transformation of the economy continues.
Output grew by 7.7 percent in… more
Japan Economy
In late June Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced the long awaited structural reform policies to stimulate Japan’s economy. Despite the wait the reform policies, known as the third arrow of Abenomics, largely fell short of… more
Japan Timber Engineering Society (JTE) today presented Hidehiko Fumoto with the 2014 Dr. Hideo Sugiyama Award for contributions to the Japanese timber engineering industries. Hidehiko Fumoto, Deputy Director & Manager Technical… more
While more and more people are interested in wood-frame houses, many people do not know about houses and building built with wood. Luckily, two major evening news shows covered wood-frame houses and wooden buildings in May. The main media… more
