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Designing for Durability

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
Resilient Wood Construction: Designing for Earthquakes & High Winds

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
2021 IBC: Building Bigger and Taller with Low Carbon Wood

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
Building the Regenerative City, Presented by Alan Organschi

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

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

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
Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Wood Buildings

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
Specifying and Using Pressure-Treated Southern Pine for Marine Applications

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

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
Beauty and Strength: An Examination of Western Red Cedar Finishes

Beauty and Strength: An Examination of Western Red Cedar Finishes

This course will explore mass timber construction, including the different types of mass timber products that are manufactured from Douglas fir, spruce-pine-fir, and Southern pine species; their performance and environmental benefits; and applications for this type of construction. The course ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests

The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests

This course is intended for professional architects and engineers who desire to improve their knowledge of the sustainability of using wood as a building material in comparison with other substitutable products. While ecosystems, supply chains, and building materials are complex, using natural, ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability

Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability

This course will consider traditional wood framing and mass timber systems in the context of resilience and sustainability in multiple ways. This includes performance during and after earthquakes, hurricanes and other disasters, as well as wood’s light carbon footprint and low embodied energy. It...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Designing for Earthquakes

Designing for Earthquakes

Wood is a proven choice for seismic-resistive construction. Earthquakes cannot be prevented but sound design and construction based on research and compliance with building code requirements can reduce their effects. The relative good performance of wood buildings is often attributed to the ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Designing for High Winds

Designing for High Winds

All buildings are at risk of experiencing damage during high winds. Each structure, with its own unique set of characteristics, reacts differently to wind loads. However, wood is conducive to meeting the challenges of wind-resistive design. For example, wood can carry substantially greater ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Introduction to Wood Building Systems

Introduction to Wood Building Systems

Whether designing for light frame or mass timber structural systems, project teams that design with wood can benefit from the material’s versatility, sustainable supply chain, and the benefits to occupants. Designing with wood can also meet thermal, acoustic, seismic and fire performance goals. ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Maximizing the Design Benefits of Podium Construction

Maximizing the Design Benefits of Podium Construction

Throughout North America, specifying podium construction is an increasingly popular option for dense, urban areas, particularly when projects require infill scenarios. Limited space and rising costs of land and construction materials, such as concrete and steel, have prompted developers and ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings

Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings

This continuing education course is intended for building designers who want to learn more about the use of wood framing systems in low-rise commercial buildings. This course provides practical information that can be applied to projects, starting with code-related topics including cost ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
The Business Case for Building with Wood

The Business Case for Building with Wood

Several converging trends are presenting both design challenges and new market opportunities. Cities are getting denser, spurring mixed-use projects that combine ground-level retail and several stories of residential units. Firms are under pressure to innovate, implement lean practices, and ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Using Wood to Achieve Thermal Performance Goals

Using Wood to Achieve Thermal Performance Goals

Thermal performance contributes to a range of important goals for most projects, including energy efficiency, comfort, durability, code compliance, structural integrity, and sustainable outcomes. Designing commercial and residential buildings with wood not only meets thermal performance ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Wood and the Indoor Environment

Wood and the Indoor Environment

The objectives of sustainable design are broader than just environmental effects, having come to embrace issues of human health and performance. As sedentary and service-related work becomes more prevalent in our society, the amount of time people spend inside buildings increases—the average ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW