As a sign of a changing era, on September 3, 2019, a 5-story building “Hotel Discover Kyoto Nagaoka” opened on the doorstep of Japan’s famous old capital Kyoto. As we know in North America it is quite common to see 3-stories… more
Hidehiko Fumoto of the BC Council of Forest Industries (COFI) was honoured on October 12 with the Housing Bureau Director General Award from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) for contributions to the Japanese… more
Japan Housing Starts Summary for June 2019
Total housing starts for June posted a small 0.2% increase to finish at 81,451 units. While owner occupied housing continued its 9th consecutive monthly gain, rental housing fell for the… more
Canada Wood promoted Midply shearwall systems to thousands of visitors at the 2019 Busan Kyunghyang Housing Fair, one of the key building and housing product fairs in Korea.
Midply is a high capacity shearwall system developed by… more
Dan Danagher, Canada’s Assistant Deputy Minister of Global Affairs, visited Canada Village in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do as part of his tour of new sustainable buildings built with wood in Korea. Kwang Hoon Lee, CEO of Dreamsite… more
Three wood-frame houses in Korea passed the pre-drywall blower door tests and scored 0.35 ACH50, 0.57 ACH50 and 0.61 ACH50. A passing air tightness score means these projects are on their way to being certified Super-E® House… more
Students majoring in architecture attended the Canada-Korea Wood Festival and the Busan BEXCO Outdoor Exhibition, held at Pukyong National University in Busan this October, as part of the university-based training program to promote the… more
A special report by UN classifying climate change as urgent has caught the attention of Korea’s largest public TV broadcaster, Korea Broadcasting System (KBS.) KBS televised an hour-long documentary, The Secret of 1.5°C, Wood Buildings,… more
Canada Wood Korea, in collaboration with USG Boral Korea, one of the largest plasterboard manufactures in Korea, has successfully extended the accreditation of one-hour fire-rated wood-frame assemblies, including one floor/ceiling, one… more
Canada Wood’s Architect Inspector and Intensive Super-E® training programs have seen some of their outstanding graduates leading the development of the wood building industry in Korea. Recently, graduates Mr. Han-joon Jo, Ms. Kyung-hwa… more
On September 20th and 21st NRCan Director, Jeff Biggs visited the Osaka region with Canada Wood’s Shawn Lawlor to learn further about market opportunities for non-residential wooden construction. Pictured above, we visited the Osaka… more
COFI received a unique request from a former seminar participant attending a 2×4 non-residential seminar in Kobe on November 10, 2017. The request was to show a group of 16 architects 2×4 sites in Hokkaido. The group, including… more
We understand that North American building codes do not require any special evaluation procedures such as “alternative solutions” when a designer wishes to use NLT as a structural member. In Japan, this is partially true, but the… more
On September 19th and 20th Canada held trilateral talks with the US Embassy and industry associations and Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forests & Fisheries (MAFF), the Forestry Agency and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,… more
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) released a Public Notice on Technical Standard for Nearly Zero Energy Buildings on January 24, 2019. The national standard (GB/T51350–2019) will come into force on September 1,… more
Hubei Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD), Hubei Building Energy Efficiency Association, and key provincial building research institutes recently paid a joint visit to Canada Wood’s Shanghai office to learn about… more
Building on Forestry Innovation Investment’s relationships with China Association of Building Energy Efficiency (CABEE), Canada Wood was invited to co-host the second National Conference on Building Energy Conservation and Green Building… more
In the first half of 2019, China introduced a number of policies in areas of green building, prefabrication and zero-waste cities.
Government Work Report
Key decisions related to housing, construction and urban-rural development were… more
China imported 14.1 million m3 of softwood lumber in the first half of this year with a value of nearly USD 2.6 billion, up 17 percent and 4.2 percent compared to the same period last year accordingly, according to data by China Bulletin,… more
Canada Wood China (CW China) released the Tracking Wood Project Starts Report in 2019 Q2, showing the floor area of the new wood project starts in 2019 Q2 shrunk 33.6 percent from Q1. The total floor area in the first half-year of 2019… more
