FII, Mak Projects to launch Canadian Wood Villa in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: FII India, known as ‘Canadian Wood’, the crown agency of the government of British Columbia (BC) with a mandate to promote its forest products in offshore markets, has collaborated with Mak Projects of Hyderabad to launch Canadian Wood Villa at BTR Greens.

In India, Canadian Wood has been actively engaged in promoting building with sustainably sourced BC wood species suited for a wide range of applications.

Spread over 250 acres in the heart of Hyderabad’s Knowledge City, BTR Greens by Mak Projects is a gated community project. Comprising 300 premium villas, it offers all the luxuries of city-life in a serene environment. The Canadian Wood villa is a unique part of this cluster.

A model house will be built by January 2022, followed by the development of custom-built villas as per bookings. Typically, it takes six months to build a house. The display villa will be made from almost ready-to-use, seasoned, sized, graded and certified lumber from BC. The villa has been built in WFC (Wood Frame Construction) style with Canadian Spruce-pine-fir; a wood species known globally for its high dimensional strength and stability. All technical and material assistance was provided by Canadian Wood on the project.

Pranesh Chhibber, country director, Canadian Wood said, “We encountered that the real estate industry in India though highly accomplished in building with concrete, was found highly wanting in knowledge and local skills required to build with wood. That is when we at FII India decided to embark on identifying potential builders and contractors for sharing knowledge with and imparting training through seminars, training workshops and wood colleges besides, and sharing best practices to help develop local expertise.”

He added, “Additionally, we began supporting the developers by arranging the required architectural and structural engineering expertise from Canada to build with wood. The collaboration with Mak Projects is one such example of our efforts.”

Dr Nawab Mir Nasir Ali Khan, promoter & MD, Mak Projects said, “Wood is a sustainable, renewable and natural building material. Even today, wood is amongst the few natural elements that can simultaneously achieve reduced carbon emissions, bring about increased sustainability in a building’s life cycle and offer improved occupant well-being.”

As compared to concrete and steel, it offers high strength-to-weight ratio and design flexibility. It is known to be a very good insulator of heat and cold and is 15 times better concrete and 400 times better than steel.

The inauguration of the Canadian Wood display Villa at BTR Greens is scheduled on October 8, 2021 and will be attended by bureaucrats and industry professionals.

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