On tour in China, B.C. Minister of Forest, Mines and Lands Pat Bell was in Chengdu on Saturday to attend groundbreaking ceremony for a wood-frame building - the type of construction that's become popular in the city after it was hit hard by earthquakes in 2008.
The 800-square-metre "Market Street" project is a a three-storey, wood-frame building with retail shops on the ground floor and primary school classrooms on the upper two floors.
"Market Street is particularly significant because it is a project where the developer saw the commercial potential for wood-frame construction in a sector that doesn't build with wood," said Bell.
