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Canada Housing Starts
The pace of Canadian housing starts slowed in January with a steep drop in multiple-unit homes, an indication builders are adjusting to a slowdown in buyers, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Monday. The agency estimates there were 11,737 actual housing starts in January and that is extrapolated to a seasonally adjusted annual…
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Lumber Production Up : Jan – Nov 2013
US sawmills produced 27.66 billion board feet (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first 11 months of 2013 – up 5.7 per cent from 26.161 bbf a year earlier, according to the Western Wood Products Association’s Lumber Track February 10. Western US sawmills accounted for 12.534 bbf of the monthly total, a gain of 7.5…
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Advanced Wood Products Manufacturing
Recent amendments to the Building Code of Australia, which permit the use of fire and acoustic rated timber construction systems for three-storey Class 3 buildings, will help promote more opportunities for traditional wood framing and engineered timbers in commercial and multi-residential developments, according to Sourceable February 7. Set to take effect in May, the amendment…
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Madison’s Weekly Submission to Stockhouse
Lumber producers face rail transportation nightmare As brutal weather patterns continued across the most populated parts of North America, lumber and panel traders reported mostly flat prices on solid wood commodities, writes Keta Kosman, publisher of Madison’s Lumber Reporter http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreportMost commonly-traded dimensions maintained price levels from last week, or were slightly down. Wider sizes, specifically…
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Vancouver History : logging in Stanley Park
FROM THE VANCOUVER SUN FEB 15, 2014: In Feb. 14, 1899, American industrialist Theodore Ludgate signed a deal with the federal government to lease Deadman’s Island, off Stanley Park. The cost was $500 per year, for 25 years. Ludgate planned to build a lumber mill on the 7.5 acre island. He told The Vancouver World…
