At a May 22 news conference in downtown Toronto, with the mid-rise Toronto Community Housing Waterfront Development Project under construction in the background, the OHBA, BILD (Building Industry and Land Development Association), RESCON (Residential Construction Council of Ontario) and the Canadian Wood Council held a news conference to release a report calling for changes to Ontario’s building code to allow for safe, affordable wood frame housing for residents in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA). Ontario’s building industry would like to see this height restriction bumped to six. Meanwhile in Ontario, the provincial Building Code has limited the height of wood frame buildings to only four storeys since 1992. Sweden boasts a seven-storey wood structure, and Australia will soon claim the world record for the tallest building of this kind-10 storeys. In the same year, a nine-storey wood frame apartment building was erected in London, England. In 2009, the province of British Columbia, endowed with bountiful forests, changed its building code to allow for the construction of wood frame residential buildings up to six storeys.
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