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The Maple Leaf Housing Centre works in cooperation with key government and industry stakeholders in other countries to ensure the successful transfer of Canadian construction technologies, standards and practices for the housing sector, thereby resulting in an increased in-country capacity to provide high quality housing.
The Maple Leaf Housing Centre’s international experience includes projects in Brunei Darussalam, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russia, South Korea, and Taiwan.
The Maple Leaf Housing Centre has:
- Extensive experience in needs assessment and the development of housing and construction sector strategies,
- Significant project experience in the housing and construction sectors and in-depth knowledge of the specific technologies and latest developments in construction materials and processes,
- Over 25 years of success in providing international training and technology transfer
In January 2011 Maple Leaf Housing Centre hosted a 23-member Korean delegation in cooperation with the Canada Wood program. The delegation traveled to Canada to gain a better understanding of the use of wood in various types of construction projects.
In December 2011 Maple Leaf Housing Centre signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Chilean Wood Association that will promote and expand the use of wood in Chile's residential construction sector.
Mr. Stevens discusses the advantages of wood-frame construction with members of a delegation of Real Estate Developers from China during their March 2012 visit to Canada.
The majority of all single-family, townhome, and multifamily mid-rise housing built in Canada uses wood-frame construction. Wood-frame construction is strong, safe, durable and energy efficient. It is renewable, reliable, economical and backed by decades of research and technological advancement to meet any building challenge. It is easy to build with and it is easy to remodel. It is easy on the environment and it gives builders the reputation of building the best quality houses, apartments and light commercial structures in the world. Now being adopted by many countries around the world, wood-frame construction is the residential and light commercial building system of choice.
