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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, GBCI CE

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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. ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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....

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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. ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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 ...

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Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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