Wood WORKS! British Columbia Wood Design Awards Photos courtesy: Wood WORKS! BC Winning architects, structural engineers and project teams enthral and inspire at 2013 BC Wood Design Awards Canadian Design and Construction Report special feature Coastal BC swept the 2013 Wood WORKS! BC Wood Design Awards, with projects of the winning ar- chitects and structural engineers located in and around Vancouver and the Gulf Islands, including three University of BC (UBC) campus projects. More than 350 design and building professionals, including architects, engineers, project teams, industry sponsors and guests gathered in March to honour the nominees and winners of the 2013 Wood WORKS! BC Wood Design Awards. The ninth annual awards evening in Vancouver recognized leadership and inno- vation in wood use while being an opportunity to pub- licly salute and celebrate continued excellence in the building and design community, a WoodWORKS! BC news release said. 62 – Spring 2013 — The Canadian Design and Construction Report There were 98 nominations in 12 categories for the 2013 awards from all over the province, as well as some national and international submissions, including one by a BC architect for a project located in Tajikistan and another in the Yukon. “We are truly amazed by both the structural and ar- chitectural uses of wood; we are seeing innovation be- yond anything we could have imagined a decade ago,” said Wood WORKS! BC executive director Mary Tracey. “Builders and designers have always embraced wood for its beauty and sustainability, and now with technological advances in wood products, they are rec- ognizing it as a building material that offers them op- portunities to create distinctive and expressive projects because of its remarkable versatility, flexibility and cost- effectiveness. The project teams are exploring wood’s