Natural Resources committee  That's a good question. There is an organization in Canada called the Canadian Wood Council, and a subset of that, the Wood Works initiative is doing a lot of that great work. The research is being done with FPInnovations and various universities across Canada on the fire side,

Natural Resources committee  That's another good question. I'm sorry I missed that, because I live and die in the building code world. We have a system in Canada where you can go for an alternative solution. If the engineer says, “I believe that's going to work and I'm willing to stamp it”, I can go outside

Natural Resources committee  What happened was when Structurlam took the leap and decided to build a manufacturing plant that was going to produce this new product called CLTs or cross-laminated timber panels, there was no market. We were very fortunate in a couple of ways. First of all, the federal governm

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, everybody. My name is Bill Downing. I'm the president of Structurlam Products in Penticton, B.C. I'm going to talk specifically about value-added and a specific product in value-added, and that's mass timber building elements, because that's what my