Course catalog

Climate change. Embodied carbon reduction. Material costs. Labor shortages. COVID and worker safety. Inflation. Infrastructure needs. These are some of today’s hottest topics—and they’re affecting how we design and build our future.  Sessions in this 3.5 hour, online wood design symposium ...

The new University of Idaho Central Credit Union (ICCU) Arena will be a showpiece for U of I’s Vandal Athletics program, provide a unique gathering place for sports, concerts and events, and celebrate Idaho’s timber heritage with innovative mass timber construction. Designed as a multi-event and ...

Step up your detailing game with this wood design course! What is the most economical unit demising wall assembly in a multi-family building? How do you detail the intersection of corridor walls and unit demising walls? How can you detail a head of corridor wall to underside of floor assembly ...

Get real business case information from leading developers who were among the first to use mass timber for commercial office buildings in the U.S. Hear first-hand how they are capitalizing on the aesthetic quality of timber buildings through leasing velocity, while realizing other benefits such ...

Modern timber buildings typically include a combination of wood and other materials, with light wood framing, steel and concrete utilized where structurally efficient. However, successfully realizing a hybrid of mass timber and other materials requires an acute understanding of their differences,...

Interested in touring two spectacular mass timber office projects? Now you can. Join us for guided virtual tours of Catalyst, a five-story, 150,000-sf building in Spokane, Washington, and The Soto, a six-story, 140,600-sf project in San Antonio, Texas. Catalyst is the first office building in ...

Two of the nation’s first tall mass timber towers are currently under construction—INTRO, a nine-story mix of apartments and retail space in Cleveland, and Ascent, a 25-story residential/mixed-use building in Milwaukee. In this webinar, the structural engineers of both projects will take a deep ...

Part 1 of the series will address code requirements and relative stiffness issues associated with cantilever diaphragms in wood structures. Traditionally, wood-frame diaphragms are designed as flexible, meaning that shear forces are transferred to vertical-resisting systems based on tributary ...

Part 3 of this series will take an in-depth look at cantilever diaphragm design processes. Using calculation steps per ASCE 7 and the 2015 edition of the American Wood Council’s Special Design Provisions for Wind & Seismic (SDPWS), diaphragm force distribution will be used to illustrate diaphragm...