CAWP is pleased to be an endorsing partner in Canada Woodworking West, a new trade show for the value-added woodworking industries coming to BC this fall . This event is for western Canada’s secondary woodworking market, including commercial and residential cabinet manufacturers and installers, residential furniture manufacturers, commercial and institutional furniture manufacturers, custom wood products manufacturers, architectural woodworkers, […]

The Conference at WMS is a full day industry conference featuring business leaders, innovators, and technical specialists  presenting best practices for the wood products manufacturing sector. The conference is held on the opening day of the Woodworking Machinery and Supply Expo, Canada’s largest and longest-running trade show for the woodworking industry, which runs from November 5th to 7th 2015 at the same […]

Two days of workshops at UBC led by two of Europe’s foremost practitioners in computer-aided design and prefabrication of timber elements for contemporary wood structures. The events will highlight what can be achieved with timber using the latest design and fabrication technologies, and will illustrate this in illuminating detail through references to a range of high-profile […]

CAWP is organizing a technical tour for wood products manufacturers interested in advanced timber construction. The tour will begin in Milan on Saturday 28th November and end in Munich on Sunday 6th December, including two days at Holzbau Forum, the world's largest wood building conference. A group of 12-20 industry participants, accompanied by ‘tour guides’ from CAWP, […]

In collaboration with Wood WORKS! BC, CAWP is pleased to offer the following seminar for structural engineers at our facility on the UBC Point Grey campus: Who should attend?  Engineers who wish to become familiar with Mass Timber Systems, specifically Mass Timber Panels (NLT, CLT, GLT and others) and Timber-Concrete-Composites that are currently not covered […]

A one-day seminar will be held for wood window and door manufacturers, as well as architects to review updates to energy efficiency and other requirements in the NAFS, BC Building Code and Vancouver's Building Bylaw. Manufacturers and experts of energy efficient windows and doors, as well as experts involved in the development of building bylaws/codes […]

Registration is Closed! (For more information on possible registration, please contact Jason at 604 822-0082) 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 Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday 3rd of December and end in Munich on Saturday 10th of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]