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Wikimedia Commons in the Canadian construction sector.
This funding is helping to protect Canadian industry and
to build more housing for Canadians.
More than $900,000 to Assembly Corp. for the development

of an innovative design and seismic system for a 62-unit,
all-wood building in Toronto.
This eight-storey residential and mixed-use rental building
will serve as a building typology to be repeated across over
a half dozen other sites, promoting sustainable construction
practices that reduce the environmental impact of the building
timber and wood-processing supply chains. These include: industry. $1 million to Sean Mason Homes to deploy an
Government will explore the use of Government Buying innovative, hybrid, mass timber and steel system for the five-
Standards to encourage the adoption of sustainable, low storey, 38-unit Rainwater Condominium project.

carbon building materials. This project aims to demonstrate a cost-efficient, sustainable
Government will work with industry, academia and the and replicable building solution for mid-rise and taller residential
Building Safety Regulator to research outstanding safety, buildings while addressing Ontario’s housing needs. It will also
durability, and competency questions towards closing the provide the initial example and model in a series of future
evidence and competence gaps of engineered mass timber projects in Barrie.
over the next five years. $1 million to Post Office Limited Partnership to deploy
Environment Minister Mary Creagh CBE MP said: “This an innovative, wood-based and sustainable building solution

Government is getting Britain building. Our Plan for Change to reconstruct and add nine storeys to a two-storey heritage
will build 1.5 million homes this Parliament. Timber will play post office in Oshawa.
a vital role benefitting development and nature.” The project will stimulate demand for Canadian wood
David Hopkins, Chief Executive Officer of Timber Development products and provide 219 high-quality rental units in a growing
UK, said: “The Government’s commitment to the Timber in community.
Construction Roadmap is a real boost to the low-carbon More than $3 million to Timmerman Timberworks to
construction sector. We have a great opportunity to increase develop, study and certify next-generation mass timber building
our housing stock while growing our forests and reducing products. This project will develop the first fully automatic,
our emissions output. precision-engineered, nail-laminated timber production line,

leading to new, advanced, high-value building products.
Canada promotes green construction and green Funding for these projects is being provided through
technology projects Natural Resources Canada’s Green Construction through Wood
According to Natural Resources Canada, the Honourable and Investments in Forest Industry Transformation programs.
Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, With this funding, the Government of Canada is helping to
along with Parliamentary Secretary Julie Dabrusin, announced accelerate the adoption of the most cutting-edge technologies
a federal contribution of more than $5.9 million for four green available to drive down costs and help the construction industry

construction and green technology projects across Ontario, access the ecological Canadian wood products it needs to
which will support the use of low-carbon and processed wood build more homes for Canadians.