Four of the 10 winners announced for the 2012 North American Wood Design Awards were from B.C.

Perkins + Will earned a Canadian Wood Council Award for the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). McFarlane Green Biggar Architecture + Design won a Wood Design Merit Award for the North Vancouver City Hall. Checkwitch Poiron Architects earned a Wood Design Citation Award for the Nanaimo Cruise Ship Terminal Building on Vancouver Island. And MacDonald & Lawrence Timber Framing Ltd. won the Wood Heritage Award for the Kinsol Trestle on Vancouver Island.

More than 100 entries were received for the awards, which are the only North American-wide awards program to publicly recognize and award excellence and innovation in wood architecture.