Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) Program

• Completed application form
• Project renderings and construction documents
• Project schedule (Gantt chart or equivalent)
• Proof of building permit status
• Class D or Class C cost estimate and comparative project cost

• Applicant must be a legal entity incorporated or registered in Canada.
• Projects must be multi-unit or mixed-use residential buildings using advanced wood-based solutions.
• Projects must incorporate innovative building solutions with wood products and/or advanced non-structural bio-products.
• Projects must be at an advanced stage of design or permitting, or be shovel-ready.
• Projects must use structural wood products and prefabricated wood-based materials manufactured in Canada.

Who is eligible?

• For-profit developers, builders and housing providers incorporated or registered in Canada
• Not-for-profit housing providers and other non-profit organizations
• Indigenous organizations and communities
• Provincial, territorial, regional and municipal governments and their departments and agencies

Eligible expenses

• Design development, permitting and construction drawings including engineering design, testing and numerical modelling
• On-site and off-site deployment of Modern Methods of Construction and related process optimization
• Standardization and prototyping of building design concepts for future replicability and scalability
• Costs of innovative wood-based building technologies, systems, bio-products and manufacturing/processing of wood-based assemblies
• Case studies, knowledge dissemination materials, and in situ testing, instrumentation and monitoring of structure performance

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Costs associated with the production of softwood lumber products.
• Costs associated with the export of softwood lumber products.

Eligible geographic areas

• Organizations and projects located in Canada

• Eligibility of the applicant, project and proposed activities.
• Use of Canadian-manufactured structural wood products and prefabricated wood-based materials.
• Innovation, technical feasibility and strength of the business case.
• Cost effectiveness, replicability and overall value for investment.
• Project timing or readiness and demonstrated benefits to Canadians.

• Applications that meet mandatory criteria are reviewed by an interdisciplinary expert panel.
• Projects are assessed against mandatory and rated criteria such as innovation, feasibility and benefits to Canadians.
• Selected projects proceed to a due diligence phase before funding decisions are finalized.
• Applicants receive official written notification of the funding decision, normally within 100 business days of the call closing date.
• Payments are issued within 30 calendar days of receiving invoices, subject to the signed contribution agreement conditions.

• The program currently has a call for proposals for demonstration projects open from February 25 to April 27, 2026.
• Total government support for a project, including all public sources, cannot exceed 100% of total project costs.
• There is no limit on the number of applications an eligible recipient may submit at one time.
• The program hosts bilingual online information sessions and shares slides and scripts afterwards.