Natural Resources committee  The biggest one is code issues, frankly. All our countries now are looking at whether we can really build these big buildings out of wood. Everybody has the same concerns, especially around fire, and so everybody needs the same help on the building code side. We're so much more a

Natural Resources committee  Are you talking about multi-family? Our single family homes are pretty much exclusively wood, anyway.

Natural Resources committee  Typically, from the mass timber side you'd be talking about multi-family homes. Multi-family homes can now be built up to six storeys in British Columbia, and I think Ontario is looking at that as well. I think they may have passed it. They're what we call “stick frames”. That's

Natural Resources committee  Obviously, we've talked about the market side of it. That market can be within the buildings that are being actually constructed by the federal government. That's one obvious place where you could help. Generally speaking, I think that Natural Resources Canada, through a group ca

Natural Resources committee  I touched on that a little earlier. When people want to compare building a mass timber building or a wood building with steel or concrete, they will focus on the cost of the material. At the end of the day, as long as the general contractor or the owner's rep or however that buil

Natural Resources committee  Again, it's through an alternative process, if it's not inside the building code now. We've made great strides in that. You have to remember that there are two different scenarios we're talking about. What you're talking about is a fully exposed wood wall or a wood roof. In tha

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Obviously, the fact that it crosses the border with no duties is an advantage for us when shipping south of the border, for example, for that Microsoft job. The real concern for us right now is, frankly, the price of lumber itself. The price of lumber has doubled this year.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, sure. Was the question specifically wood versus steel or concrete?

Natural Resources committee  I think we need to get recognized. The number one advantage of building out of wood is the speed of installation. There's a huge advantage from the scheduling component, and time is money, but quite often, we don't get the benefit of that. In other words, a general contractor, s

Natural Resources committee  Everything.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, every stick and every panel that went into that building was prefabricated at our plant in the Okanagan down to plus or minus 1.5 millimetres in accuracy. That's where your time.... It's incredibly accurate. The material is perfect when it arrives, and as long as everything

Natural Resources committee  Richard, how are you?

Natural Resources committee  I'll start with the competition side. I don't really worry about it too much because I think that as long as the pie is continuing to grow, other members can come in and we can all do quite well. I'm not particularly worried about the material coming in from the U.S. market. What

Natural Resources committee  Basically, building in wood is generally carbon neutral to carbon positive. We've done a life cycle analysis on our material, and we have the scientific basis for saying that our material is carbon neutral. That's done through an organization called FPInnovations, a wood research

Natural Resources committee  As I mentioned, Structurlam has been in business for 55 years, and during that time we have exported all around the world. There are two markets that are really key to us. Obviously, the U.S. market is huge, and it's just gaining momentum on building with mass timber. The other m