{"id":24886,"date":"2025-04-30T08:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=24886"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T22:30:08","slug":"how-canada-plans-to-use-mass-timber-to-double-pace-of-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/how-canada-plans-to-use-mass-timber-to-double-pace-of-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"How Canada Plans to Use Mass Timber to Double Pace of Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Canada wants to tap into mass timber and other modern construction methods to more than double the speed of housing under construction, according to Mark Carney, the country’s newly elected Prime Minister<\/a>, who spoke about his plans for housing just two weeks before the federal election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key plank of the plan – launched March 31 – includes the creation of a new entity, “Build Canada Homes”<\/a> that will “get the federal government back into the business of building affordable homes at scale, including on public lands,” Carney said, adding that more than $25 billion in financing will be opened to prefabricated home builders – allowing for factories to scale up production to create demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Build Canada Homes will catalyse an entirely new housing industry, with Canadian lumber at the centre of it. The way we build homes needs to change. Prefabricated and modular housing are the future. They can drive down time to completion by up to 50 per cent, reduce costs by up to 20 per cent, and reduce emissions by over 20 per cent compared to traditional construction methods, and Canada should be the world leader in this new industry. And as you can see here, we are already well positioned to do so.”<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Carney said that Canada’s softwood lumber industry\u2014which has been subject to on-again, off-again Trump tariffs\u2014and mass timber technologies like those used at Intelligent City are central to plans to build almost 500,000 new homes every year: “We want to address failures in the housing market head-on, unleashing the power of public-private co-operation at a scale not seen in generations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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