Research laboratories and state-of-the-art research equipment are at the disposal of our faculty and students for research in all areas of wood & fiber science and technology. The following are established labs and facilities within the Department:
Centre for Advanced Wood Processing
The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) is Canada’s national centre for education, training and technical assistance for the wood products manufacturing industry.
- Advanced Renewable Materials Lab (Renneckar)
- Bamboo Applications and Manufacturing Lab (Dai)
- Biobased Colloids and Materials Lab (Rojas)
- Biobased Nanomaterials Lab (Cranston)
- BioCycle Lab (Joshi)
- Biorefinery and Biomass Conversion Lab (Kim)
- Business, Sustainability and Technology Lab (van der Ven)
- Forests and Communities in Transition (FACT)
- Furniture Design & Secondary Manufacturing Lab (Fuerst, Leung)
- Industrial Engineering Research Lab (Sowlati)
- Sustainable Bioeconomy Research Group (Tu)
- Sustainable Built Environment Lab (Feng)
- Sustainable Engineered Structural Solutions Laboratory (Loss)
- Sustainable Functional Biomaterials Lab (Jiang)
- Timber Buildings Fire Engineering Lab (Wiesner)
- Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics Lab (TEAM) (Lam, Li, Loss)
- Wood and Fiber Quality Lab (Mansfield)
- Wood Anatomy, Ultrastructure & Microscopy Lab
- Wood Adhesives & Composites Lab (Smith, Dai)
- Wood Building Design & Construction Lab (Lam, Loss)
- Wood Finishing Lab (Evans)
- Wood Physics & Drying Lab (Avramidis)
- Wood Preservation & Protection Lab (Evans)
- Wood Sawmilling & Optimization Lab (Cool)
- Wood Surface Science Lab (Evans)