The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) at the University of British Columbia in collaboration with the University of Northern British Columbia is pleased to announce that they will lead a technical tour to Austria in December 2017. The tour will start in Vienna, with a visit to the construction site of the world’s next tallest wood building, the 24 story Ho Ho Tower. The next three days will be spent travelling through Austria visiting manufacturers of prefabricated energy efficient homes, modular building systems fabricators, and innovative mass‐ timber components manufacturers. The tour will culminating at the 23rd Holzbau Forum, the world’s largest international conference on wood building and design, in Garmisch Partenkirchen (Holzbau Conference).