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February 2017
Holzbau Pacific Northwest
The Holzbau Pacific Northwest Conference held on February 23 - 24, 2017, will be the first in a series of four events running between February 23 to March 6, 2017 as part of the Forest Innovation Investment (FII) - Wood Week BC event. In Europe, the hugely successful “HolzBau Forum” (“holzbau” means “wood construction” in German) has become the world’s largest annual conference event in its field, held for 22 years each December in southern Germany and attracting around 1500…
Find out more »December 2018
“SOLD OUT” Prefabrication and Timber Building Technical Tour and Conference to Germany 2018
CAWP, in partnership with UNBC, is organizing a technical tour for architects, construction and wood builiding products manufacturers, public sector officials and policy makers. The tour will begin in Frankfurt on Sunday 2nd of December and end in Munich on Sunday 9th of December, including three days at Holzbau Forum, the world's largest wood building conference. A group of 15-20 industry participants, accompanied by ‘tour guides’ from CAWP, will visit state-of-the-art production facilities of innovative manufacturers of prefabricated homes and building systems, and…
Find out more »January 2019
CAWP Open House 2020 and Co-op Presentation Evening
Our annual Open House is your chance to visit our facilities, see technical demonstrations, meet students and learn about our industry support, training and applied research activities. Join us for lunch, view a series of short presentations, then tour our machine shop areas and see various projects and technologies in action. In the evening students in our B.Sc. Wood Products Processing program take the spotlight as they present on their co-op work term experiences. Free event - please RSVP. For more details…
Find out more »April 2020
Marketing Green Products
The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing will be offering the Marketing Green Products Course starting on September 9 for eight weeks. For more details see our Management Skill Training Program
Find out more »October 2020
Supply Chain Management
The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing will be offering the Supply Chain Management Course starting on Oct 26, 2020 for six weeks. For more details see our Management Skill Training Program
Find out more »February 2021
Future of Prefabrication Symposium – Day 2
Prefabrication in mass timber buildings is fast becoming a reality and, through digital design and manufacturing processes, it is having a disruptive effect on the building industry. In order to maintain BC’s lead in innovation in wood and to promote value added processes within the province, it is timely for BC to lead a symposium on the state-of-the-art in Wood Prefabricated Buildings. This symposium is a collaboration between UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), UBC School of Architecture and…
Find out more »March 2021
Future of Prefabrication Symposium – Day 3
Prefabrication in mass timber buildings is fast becoming a reality and, through digital design and manufacturing processes, it is having a disruptive effect on the building industry. In order to maintain BC’s lead in innovation in wood and to promote value added processes within the province, it is timely for BC to lead a symposium on the state-of-the-art in Wood Prefabricated Buildings. This symposium is a collaboration between UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), UBC School of Architecture and…
Find out more »Future of Prefabrication Symposium – Day 4
Prefabrication in mass timber buildings is fast becoming a reality and, through digital design and manufacturing processes, it is having a disruptive effect on the building industry. In order to maintain BC’s lead in innovation in wood and to promote value added processes within the province, it is timely for BC to lead a symposium on the state-of-the-art in Wood Prefabricated Buildings. This symposium is a collaboration between UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), UBC School of Architecture and…
Find out more »October 2021
British Columbia Timber Building Tour 2021
CAWP is once again organizing a technical tour for architects, construction and wood building products manufacturers, public sector officials and policy makers. This year, the tour will take place in beautiful British Columbia. This tour is an opportunity for participants to visit some of BC’s leading mass-timber building component and prefabricated building systems manufacturers, many of whom have attended our past tours to Europe and have adopted and implemented principles and technologies into their manufacturing practices. These companies provide building solutions…
Find out more »February 2022
Future of Prefabrication Symposium – Virtual
Prefabrication in mass timber buildings is fast becoming a reality and, through digital design and manufacturing processes, it is having a disruptive effect on the building industry. In order to maintain BC’s lead in innovation in wood and to promote value added processes within the province, it is timely for BC to lead a symposium on the state-of-the-art in Wood Prefabricated Buildings. This symposium is a collaboration between UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP), UBC School of Architecture and…
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