woodSMART is a program of the Canadian Wood Council.

Purpose – To support post-secondary institutions, educators, and students to ensure future architects, engineers, and construction professionals have the up-to-date knowledge and skillset in the design, manufacture, and assembly of advanced wood buildings.


Binderholz is a vertically integrated provider of wood products with 28 facilities located in Europe and North America.  The company manages its resources from seedlings to full utilization of wood fibres based on zero-waste principles.  They produce solid wood products including; lumber, profiled timbers, and mass-timber, as well as biofuel pellets from residual wastes.   


Born out of a collaboration between friends and industry colleagues, Aspect was founded to be the next generation of structural engineering: mixing innovative strategies with experience, technical expertise and modern project delivery methods.


Provider of construction services intended to offer affordable, smart, and sustainable buildings for everyone. The company provides resource-efficient and affordable housing for people, with a focus on design for manufacturing and regenerative material usage, thereby enabling customers to have access to sustainable living spaces. 


Paradigm Panels offers sustainable housing solutions through prefabrication. The company factory builds both an open and closed wall panel systems, that is optimized to reduce labour costs and waste. The manufacturing process is integrated with robotic technology to optimize precisiona and produce top quality products adhering to strict building standards and codes.


Weinmann Holzbausystemtechnik GmbH is leading manufacturer of machines for the timber construction industry.  Weinmann develops company specific state-of-the-art flexible and innovative solutions.


Ecological and innovative building materials for modern house construction: this is what best wood SCHNEIDER stands for. We develop and manufacture all products necessary for construction and insulation out of wood – and in a closed resource cycle.


Mercer is one of the world’s largest producers of market pulp and a growing leader in the solid wood products space.


This symposium has been accredited by AIBC for 10 Core LUs


This symposium is made possible by Forestry Innovation Investment