Wood works: Canada’s bold step towards sustainability

by tanya_martins_2 | March 10, 2025 10:17 am

Construction worker wearing a yellow hard hat and checkered shirt, using a hammer to drive a nail into a wooden frame at a building site. — The four green construction and green technology projects across Ontario will support using low-carbon and processed wood in the Canadian construction sector. *Photo courtesy nruboc/Bigstockphoto.com*

The federal government has invested more than $5.9 million in sustainable wood construction in Ontario, which will create 319 new residential units.

The four green construction and green technology projects across Ontario will support using low-carbon and processed wood in the Canadian construction sector.

The funding includes:

More than $900,000 went to Assembly Corp. to develop an innovative design and seismic system for a 62-unit, all-wood building in Toronto.
$1 million to Sean Mason Homes to deploy an innovative, hybrid mass timber and steel system for the five-storey, 38-unit Rainwater Condominium project.
$1 million to Post Office Limited Partnership to deploy an innovative, wood-based, and sustainable building solution to reconstruct and add nine stories to a two-storey heritage post office in Oshawa.
More than $3 million to Timmerman Timberworks to develop, study, and certify next-generation mass timber building products.

Funding for these projects is being provided through Natural Resources Canada’s (NRC’s) Green Construction through Wood and Investments in Forest Industry Transformation programs.

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