Canada needs to double its pace of housing construction over the next decade and the federal government is all in on seeing more of those new homes built with Canadian materials and products using modern methods of construction (MMC), a broad term that includes modular, panelization and prefabrication. But the country faces a number of hurdles. One of them is the harmonization of building codes to make it “better and easier to work with Canadian wood,” said Gregor Robertson, minister of housing and infrastructure, in a webinar hosted by the Forest Products Association of Canada and the Canadian Wood Council and WoodWorks. “We need to make sure our supply chains, our transportation networks are capable of getting product back and forth across the country. We have room for improvement there,” he said. …Derek Nighbor, president and CEO of FPAC, said government procurement methods have to change to accommodate delivery of MMC with wood.