OTTAWA, Ontario – The Canadian Wood Council (CWC), working with the Canadian and Ontario governments, plans to conduct a series of five separate research burns on a full-scale timber structure in Ottawa. 

CWC said, “The purpose of the project is to support market acceptance of tall and large mass timber buildings in Canada.”

The two-story structure will be subject to five burns over the summer of 2022, with the first and largest scheduled to take place at the end of June.

CWC is a strong advocate of mass timber construction, which it said through wider acceptance and adoption will solidify Canada’s global leadership in the bio-economy and forest sector in “achieving a low carbon, built environment.”

According to CWC, the objectives of the fire research burn demonstrations include: 

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Rich Christianson is the owner of Richson Media LLC, a Chicago-based communications firm focused on the industrial woodworking sector. Rich is the former long-time editorial director and associate publisher of Woodworking Network. During his nearly 35-year career, Rich has toured more than 250 woodworking operations throughout North America, Europe and Asia and has written extensively on woodworking technology, design and supply trends. He has also directed and promoted dozens of woodworking trade shows, conferences and seminars including the Cabinets & Closets Conference & Expo and the Woodworking Machinery & Supply Conference & Expo, Canada’s largest woodworking show.

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