The first six-storey wood buildings in the GTA are about to begin construction and these projects provide new homebuyers with more choices for new homes in mid-rise structure. Mid-rise buildings, which are generally five to 11 storeys, are an important built form for the future growth of the region and the home building and land…
An emotionally charged meeting was held Feb. 17 in Glade regarding plans for Kalesnikoff Lumber and Atco Wood Products to log in the Glade watershed. About 60 people turned up for the meeting, the primary purpose of which was to hear a report on the hydrogeomorphic assessment of the watershed. The report was completed by…
Conifex Timber Inc. reported that 4Q 2015, revenues increased to $100.5 million from $95.2 million in the 4Q 2014. Operating income increased to $1.6 million in the 4Q 2015 from $0.6 million in the same quarter last year, as the inclusion of the results of our bioenergy segment more than offset a decline in operating income…
Nestled where the Nicola and Coldwater rivers join, Merritt, British Columbia, is the first major community along phase one of the Coquihalla Highway, which serves as a portal to all other major highways to the B.C. interior. Lying 450 miles northeast of Merritt is district municipality Fort St. James, which rests on the shore of Stuart…
Innovation in wood products design and manufacturing is reaching a rapid pace and it is critical that Atlantic Canada’s forest and wood product industries keep abreast of these trends. The tallest wood building in the world currently stands at 14 storeys. New construction technologies and engineered wood products have the potential to push the height…
For Harbour Air CEO Greg McDougall, there is a bit of symmetry in his company’s efforts to stay carbon-neutral. His airline’s float planes fly over large parts of British Columbia’s south coast, and the company buys some of the carbon offsets for their emissions from a program that generates carbon credits from preservation of the…
It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University Vancouver, can grow one on a computer in three weeks. He and Jean Lienard, a mathematics postdoctoral researcher, created the first computer simulation that grows realistic forests down to the branches,…
Officials with the city’s forestry section say the massive plan to remove 23,000 dead and dying ash trees on city property over 10 years is more than one-third completed. A total of 8,800 trees afflicted by the emerald ash borer have so far been taken down across Hamilton. Those trees include ones on the city…
The government of Saskatchewan is scrapping a controversial policy that has been used to prioritize forest fires. Under the policy, the province could let forest fires burn unless they were within 20 kilometres of a community. Many northerners criticized that policy during last year’s record-setting season of wildfires. They said once a fire was within 20 kilometres of…
A mill shutdown in Port Alberni that resulted in close to 100 workers being laid off is symptomatic of a much larger problem as timber harvesting contractors up and down the BC coast are struggling to be sustainable in the face of consistently low rates. Western Forest Products (WFP) Alberni Pacific Division mill sent home…