UBC Lands $1.4 Million Dollar Wood Research

Monday, February 06, 2006 11:31 AM

The Province has announced that as part of its mountain pine beetle action plan, it is contributing $1.4 million towards wood building, design and construction research at the University of British Columbia.

Forests and Range Minister Rich Coleman says the reasearch is to find new uses for so called denim pine. "Our priority is to make the most out of the beetle wood in the short and long term so we can support our forest-dependent communities,” said Coleman. “The research and development into new products and markets led by the chair – the first of its kind in North America – will play a big part in that effort.”

The Province is working with the university and the forest industry to find and attract a world-class expert to lead the research. It is expected the head of the research will be named by this fall.

Product development and testing will take place at the UBC Centre for Advanced Wood Processing.

UBC received an additional $510,000 from the Province last November for eight related pine beetle research and development projects.

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Posted on Monday, February 06, 2006 11:31 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Mike on February 6 2006 3:04 PM

I read in Monday's paper that Ft St James and Vanderhoof school districts have capitalized on the trees in their yards. Here in PG we give a removal job to friends and what about probably 2 mil in wood? Where did the logs get to and who got paid??

Posted by: Palopu on February 6 2006 4:56 PM

So much for the highly expensive University on the Hill at Prince George

Posted by: owl on February 7 2006 6:49 PM

Palopu .....

Do you really expect all $s to come this way?

UBC campus is the home of Canada's top research facilties in wood technology as well as woodland operations technology. All are engineering based research operations and UNBC does not have an engineering school, even thought there are some students in an engineering program which has yet to be accredited by the professional association.

In other words, UNBC is a babe in the woods when it comes to this sort of project.

This is who is getting the money:

http://www.cawp.ubc.ca/cawp/index_cawp.html

This is the research organization which is located on UBC campus and works in conjunction with the others:

http://www.forintek.ca

This is the other one for woodlands operations:

http://www.feric.ca/en/index.htm

Ideally one provides money to the organization which has the capacity and credibility to conduct such research ....

At the moment UNBC is not that institute for this particular project ..... just because we sit in the middle of a forest and we have a university does not mean we have the capacity for such a project.