Welcome to the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing

The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing is Canada's national centre of excellence for education and research related to wood products processing and advanced wood products manufacturing. CAWP offers a wide range of training courses, continuing education programs, and industry services, conducts applied research, and assists industry to employ students to work on special projects by coordinating a cooperative education program.

This site contains information on all of CAWP's programs, as well as news items, articles, publications and resources useful to wood products manufacturers. Please check back often as content is updated frequently. Please see also the "About Us" and "Frequently Asked Questions" pages of this site.

Announcements

CAWP Open House 2012: You're Invited!

On Wednesday February 1st the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing will be holding its 2012 Open House. We invite anyone who is interested to visit our building, see our facilities, find out what services we have to offer, and take in a variety of free presentations and demonstrations.

New Trends in Timber Engineering and Architecture - Julius Natterer

Special presentation - Monday, October 17, 3:30-5.00pm
Admission: Free

Few people over the last 30 years have had such a formative influence on the development of timber engineering as Julius Natterer. As a structural engineer he has vigorously promoted the use of timber in architecture and applied it in a wide range of different structural systems. As a professor at Lausanne Federal Polytechnic Institute he headed the Institute for Wood Structures from 1978 until 2006, where he taught and carried out research. His construction projects have included a wide range of innovative bridges, academic buildings and the roof of the Expo World Exhibition in Hanover. His work on development, experimentation and design continues, and in this presentation he will highlight new trends in timber engineering and architecture. A more complete biography can be found at http://www.nattererbcn.com/pics/structural.pdf

This presentation will be of interest to architects and structural engineers involved in or interested in timber construction projects.

Venue:
Room 2916, Centre for Advanced Wood Processing
Forest Sciences Centre, 2424 Main Mall,
UBC Point Grey campus, Vancouver

Location and Directions: http://www.cawp.ubc.ca/AboutUs/OurLocation.aspx

Wood Construction Tour to Germany, December 2011

This year the UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing is once again organising a short tour of technical facilities and wood buildings related to timber construction and energy-efficient housing in southern Germany and Austria, culminating in attendance of the International Wood Construction Conference in Garmisch Partenkirschen, Europe’s largest wood building event, which annually attracts over 1,000 participants. The tour will be held from December 3^rd to 10^th 2011, and will be of interest to architects, designers, engineers, researchers and industry professionals working in the wood building/wood construction fields who are interested in the following topics:

Production of factory-built homes
Innovative wood buildings and structures
Green buildings and passive/low energy homes
Energy-efficient building products

The theme of this year’s Garmisch conference will be low-energy buildings. The group will meet in Munich on Sunday 4^th, then travel by bus to visit a number of production facilities, wood buildings and a permanent low energy housing exhibition before arriving at the conference on Wednesday 7th. The group will return to Munich on Saturday for return flights to Canada. Numbers will be limited to no more than 12 participants.

For more information, please contact CAWP at cawp@cawp.ubc.ca, phone 604-822-6448 or call toll free (North America) to 1-866-822-2297.

Olympic project is finalist at Premier's Awards

We are pleased to report that CAWP and our partners in the 2010 Winter Olympic Medal Podium project were finalists at the Premier's Awards for Innovation and Excellence, held May 31st at Carson Hall, Victoria. The team, which included BC's Wood First Initiative, VANOC, UBC, and Rona, was nominated in the Partnership category. The video made for the awards ceremony can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT5z0k-NTUk&list=PLE46E56079FA8BD36

Product Development Services for Manufacturers
CAWP helps wood products manufacturers of all types and sizes to develop new products. We have a large team of technical specialists and an advanced 10,000 square-foot manufacturing lab that features the latest technologies, including three and five-axis CNC routers, a CNC beam processor, and UV-curing flat line finishing equipment. Our team can help manufacturers identify market opportunities, brainstorm and refine design concepts, model new products using advanced computer-aided-design programs, create and test protoypes, track production costs and recommend manufacturing solutions. Click here for more information. Companies with manufacturing operations in British Columbia can obtain support for projects through the Business Innovation Partnership.

Management Skills Training for the Wood Products Industry

CAWP offers a set of affordable online management skills training courses on: Quality Management & Control; Sales & Marketing; Business Finance & Investment Evaluation; Production Planning; Human Resources & Safety; New Product Development; Factory Layout & Equipment Justification; and Supply Chain Management. Each e-learning module requires between 30 and 40 hours of part-time study over six weeks, and has been designed specifically for the wood products industry. Participants can take modules one by one at their own pace - for more details view the Management Program web pages, contact cawp@cawp.ubc.ca or download the PDF.

UBC Certificate in Industrial Wood Finishing

The UBC Certificate in Industrial Wood Finishing is a part-time industry training program that takes place every year from January to April. The program consists of 100 hours of online learning from January to March followed by a 6-day practical session in Vancouver in late April. It is one of the most comprehensive courses on wood finishing currently available, and covers wood properties, sanding, coating types and application methods, guns and compressor systems, automated finishing, environmental compliance, safety, and quality testing. Participants come from across Canada, the United States, and overseas, and have included spray finishers, line supervisors, production managers, owners of small shops, coatings lab technicians, equipment sales reps, and manufacturing engineers.

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UBC Certificate in Kiln Drying

CAWP offers a 150-hour modular course in kiln drying that currently represents the most comprehensive training program on the subject available anywhere in the world. Offered annually since 1998, the certificate course is relevant to both sawmills and value-added enterprises. Full course descriptions, are available on our Continuing Education pages.

To reserve your place contact us at cawp@cawp.ubc.ca

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