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Design and Construction of Taller Wood Buildings

Design and Construction of Taller Wood Buildings

Over the past several years, a number of tall wood buildings have been completed around the world, demonstrating successful applications of new wood and mass timber technologies. With rising demand for new urban buildings, and increased interest in efficient and environmentally friendly ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

Learn how design teams can integrate acoustic design to create high-performance wood buildings that also enhance the health and well-being of occupants. Noise has a great impact on the built environment and its occupants, with numerous exterior and interior sources. Acoustic design in wood ...
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
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

Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings

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
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
Contemporary Cedar Cladding: Regional Approaches and Best Practices for Residential Design

Contemporary Cedar Cladding: Regional Approaches and Best Practices for Residential Design

This course explores the innovative applications of softwood, particularly western red cedar (WRC), in contemporary residential architecture across North America. Through detailed project case studies, three acclaimed architects—Raylene Hill (RAD Architects, Nova Scotia), Laura Marion (Flight ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
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
Mass Timber 2030: Preparing Your Practice

Mass Timber 2030: Preparing Your Practice

Interested in designing with mass timber, but unsure how to incorporate it into your toolbox? Hear from three AEC leaders—an architect, a developer, and an engineer—regarding their unique role in the project pipeline and their expertise with specifying mass timber and hybrid building systems. In ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Learning and Architecture: What Mass Timber Can Teach Us presented by Martin Hopp

Learning and Architecture: What Mass Timber Can Teach Us presented by Martin Hopp

This course explores the intersection of sustainable building practices and educational environments. Through the lens of recent mass timber projects, including the Evergreen Charter School, the course examines how mass timber construction can address key challenges in K-12 education, such as ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Designing and Constructing the All-Wood Building: Presented by Ben Waechter

Designing and Constructing the All-Wood Building: Presented by Ben Waechter

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the design and construction of all-wood buildings, with a focus on Waechter Architecture’s innovative Mississippi Building in Portland, Oregon. The course highlights the flexible “6-Rooms” approach, structural systems using mass timber products, and ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Creating Beautiful, Accessible, and Equitable Spaces with Mass Timber Presented by Chandra Robinson

Creating Beautiful, Accessible, and Equitable Spaces with Mass Timber Presented by Chandra Robinson

This course delves into the innovative use of mass timber in architecture. Chandra Robinsons’ extensive experience with timber projects showcases the material's potential to advance building technologies while promoting sustainability, equity, and resilience. Participants will explore various ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future

Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future

The architectural, engineering and construction sector has grappled with unprecedented technological and socioeconomic changes along with challenges to the health of our communities, our cities, and our planet. While these challenges are daunting, industry leaders increasingly see it as an ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, GBCI CE
Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-being

Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-being

Occupant health and well-being is more important than ever, especially given the fact that Americans, on average, are spending approximately 90 percent of their time indoors. As a result, building professionals are rethinking how we design, use and occupy buildings. COVID-19 is also changing the ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Designing Modern Wood Schools

Designing Modern Wood Schools

In 2019, an estimated $98 billion was spent on educational construction, including new buildings and structures as well as renovations, site work and all associated utility work. School construction, and educational facilities accounted for about 101 million square feet of the nonresidential ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Multi-family, Mid-rise Wood Buildings

Multi-family, Mid-rise Wood Buildings

Demand for multi-family housing continues to play an important role in the overall U.S. construction market. While dominant in single family residential construction, the cost-effective, code-compliant and sustainable attributes of wood construction apply to mid-rise multi-family projects, too. ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
The Role of Wood Products in Green Building

The Role of Wood Products in Green Building

Architects can incorporate green building techniques into their designs through their choice of building materials. Material choice greatly affects the environmental impact of buildings, both during construction and over the building’s lifecycle. Wood is a renewable, durable building material ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building

How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building

Buildings consume nearly half the energy produced in the United States, use three-quarters of the electricity and account for nearly half of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Due to these impacts, building for environmental sustainability is critical. This carbon footprint course explains the ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
CLT in Residential Typologies, Presented by Jennifer Bonner

CLT in Residential Typologies, Presented by Jennifer Bonner

This presentation will examine the use of CLT in residential typologies - with a focus on projects that utilize space and geometry in a unique way.  The presentation will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of using CLT and the opportunities where CLT was specified in various case studies....
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW