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Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings: Trends, Drivers, Challenges

This presentation will examine the recent trend towards steel-timber hybrids - as a subset of the wider trend towards mass timber - in high rise buildings. It will overview where this is happening, and what the advantages and challenges are, focusing on some of the key case studies employing such...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Specifying and Using Pressure-Treated Southern Pine for Marine Applications

Southern pine (SP) is a group of four highly versatile and durable softwood species with a unique cellular structure that permits deep, uniform penetration of preservatives, making it preferred for pressure treatment in aquatic environments. SP is used in a wide variety of marine applications, ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Wood Buildings

In this course, you’ll explore foundational concepts of prefabricated construction, along with its potential advantages. Materials cover the unique benefits of prefabricated light wood-frame and mass timber construction, including types of prefabricated timber systems, assemblies, and wood ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

The Woodpecker's Delight: Nader Tehrani on the Role of Wood Architecture in Culture and Ecology

This guest lecture is presented by Nader Tahrani, Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. In a world increasingly challenged by global warming, the construction ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Building the Regenerative City, Presented by Alan Organschi

The built environment is responsible for an estimated 40% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as well as a host of other global ecological and social impacts. By 2050, there will be 2.5 billion new inhabitants of global cities. Demand for new buildings and infrastructure will grow ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Disruptive Ecologies: Mass Timber as a Lower-Carbon Building Approach, Presented by Susan Jones

In this lecture, Jones provides insight into an ecological journey of a decade-long search for sustainable design strategies. The course focuses on how mass timber can be used as a lower-carbon approach to building design while also maintaining the safety and well-being of the occupants. The ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

2021 IBC: Building Bigger and Taller with Low Carbon Wood

In this course, you’ll learn about the 2021 International Building Code (IBC) changes related to tall wood construction, including three new building types that allow for wood buildings up to 18 stories and even taller using an Alternate Materials and Methods Requests (AMMR). Rigorous fire ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Resilient Wood Construction: Designing for Earthquakes & High Winds

Designing a building to withstand the potentially devastating forces of high winds or seismic events is a challenge an architect or engineer will likely face. Properly designed and constructed wood structures that comply with building code requirements are resilient, performing with minimal ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Designing for Durability

Even as the use of wood is expanding, one significant characteristic of wood buildings is often underestimated: their durability. When designed to mitigate moisture, insect damage, and local climate impacts, wood buildings stand the test of time. And beyond their physical properties, wood can ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW