Quebec is probably the first jurisdiction in Canada to support tall wood buildings up to 12 storeys. The way it happened in Quebec is that they adapted the mid-rise first, up to six storeys, and then they were really proactive in that response, especially after the Quebec wood charter came into effect. They published some kind of a pre-approved, let's call it, alternative solution. I don't know if many of you are familiar with the alternative solution. This is a way actually to allow us to go beyond the code. This is how UBC's Brock Commons and also the 13-storey building in Quebec were designed and built, by demonstrating that those buildings can perform or have the same level of safety, as a minimum, in terms of fire and structural, as a typical code-compliant concrete building.
So what they did is they took the design of the 13-storey building. They put it as an established pre-approved recipe. Think of wood. So this is actually a recipe for buildings up to 12 storeys. This is how you do it to meet the intent of the Quebec building code, and this is actually being used as a way to.... The standing committee and the test group at the national building code, the model code of Canada, is actually using that as the basis for moving forward in addition to all the technical information that's being developed, with funding from the government of Canada, of course.