Course catalog

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 ...

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 ...

The Aspen Art Museum, designed by architect Shigeru Ban, includes a long-span three-dimensional wood space-frame roof. Ban’s charge was to create a wood space frame with spans of more than 50 feet and cantilevers of 14 feet, in a structural depth of 3 feet. The space frame was to have two planes ...

Explore the carbon benefits of timber from our forests to wood buildings. In addition to their renewability, wood products require less embodied energy to manufacture than other structural building materials. Trees also absorb carbon and wood products continue to sequester that carbon for the ...

This presentation will explore common challenges and solutions for gravity framing structural design of light-frame multi-story buildings. With the proliferation of wood construction for four, five and even six-story multi-family and mixed-use buildings, more project teams are facing the design ...

Concealed spaces—e.g., dropped ceilings or soffits—are common in light wood-frame and mass timber buildings. However, equally common are misunderstandings as to what requirements exist for their fire protection. Do all concealed spaces with combustible materials require sprinkler protection, ...

This webinar will explore the essential design decisions for achieving cost-effective and sustainable solutions in mass timber multi-family housing projects. Our expert panel will explain the fundamental principles behind successful mass timber housing project design, from structural innovations ...

Balcony design in mixed-use and multi-family projects can be a challenge. Cantilevered balconies may be the most vulnerable element of the building in that they are exposed to weather and have limited structural redundancy. Not only do they require careful design and detailing to ensure safety ...

As the height of mass timber buildings continues to grow, so too does the level of design and detailing knowledge required to achieve optimal building construction and performance. A necessary consideration for mass timber buildings of any height is vertical movement—including column shrinkage, ...