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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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