Forest Sector’s Latest Push: High-tech Lumber For Tall Towers

By Brent Jang, Globe and Mail
March 31, 2013

Canada’s forestry sector is touting a new generation of high-tech lumber as a way to gain a foothold in a part of the construction industry from which it has long been shut out: condominiums. Officials at the Forest Products Association of Canada are pushing to have building codes changed to allow for taller wood structures. Such buildings are made possible, they say, by massive wood beams made from reinforced timber that could become the main ingredient in many new condo towers. More … http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/forest-sectors-latest-push-high-tech-lumber-for-tall-towers/article10590330/.