After more than a decade of hard work to unlock and demonstrate the potential for mass timber in Canada, the industry is ready to scale. The industry is advancing rapidly, but there is work to do to realize this opportunity of increasing manufacturing value-added products to the forest sector. However, to compete globally, Canada needs to create an efficient, integrated forest-to-buildings value chain. Time is of the essence.
The challenge: how can we organize ourselves to capture these opportunities and convert them into an integrated value chain that delivers long-term economic value-added across Canada?
The solution: A virtual process with over 50 stakeholders across Canada to develop a vision, roadmap and action plan for the development of mass timber.
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), the Canadian Wood Council (CWC), along with The Energy Futures Lab (EFL), The Natural Step Canada (TNS), the Smart Prosperity Institute (SP), the Transition Accelerator (TA) are working together to convene and engage the needed actors in the mass timber ecosystem to co-create a bold vision and roadmap to capitalize on Canada’s potential as supplier of mass timber in a net-zero world, and work together on a portfolio of near- and mid-term priority initiatives, investments and policies.
The result of this 6 month project was a vision and roadmap that charts a pathway and a strategy to to build a world-class mass timber industry that adopts a strategic approach to the use of Canada’s forestry resources.
“Our team enjoyed working with Pong as we developed Canada’s mass timber roadmap. He was a strong facilitator and helped us bring together – and keep together – a host of rightsholders and stakeholders critical to value chain development. With our partners, he also ably helped deliver a report that lays the foundation for the future of mass timber manufacturing in Canada – more investment, more innovation, more jobs, and more Canadian wood in beautiful buildings here at home and around the world.”
