FORT ST. JAMES, B.C. – Nak’azdli Development Corp. (NDC) is set to unveil its inaugural Timber House next month — a prefabricated home that uses stud lumber from local sawmills and an innovative panel construction system by local forestry startup Deadwood Innovations. “There has been a lot of emphasis recently on fast-tracking mass timber construction for large-scale buildings in large urban centres, but very little focus on supporting regional housing, tailored to the specific needs of remote and rural communities,” said Owen Miller, Deadwood Innovations CEO and co-founder, in a statement. …Both NDC and Deadwood Innovations developed a thermochemical process that takes aspen and other low-quality timber unsuitable for sawmilling and transforms it into durable, high-quality lumber. To advance their projects, the partners are working with the University of Northern British Columbia’s Wood Innovation Research Lab in the School of Engineering through a program co-ordinated by Mitacs.