Mass Timber Enables Beauty, Warmth and Functional Design in The Soto

At six stories and 140,000 square feet, The Soto is a model of sustainable design. Developed by Hixon Properties, it is the first phase of an 8.5-acre mixed-use area in San Antonio that will include food and beverage, entertainment, office, apartment, and retail. The primary design direction was ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Hybrid Systems: Combining Structural Materials to Maximize Efficiency

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,...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber in Multi-Family Housing: Is it a Good Fit for Your Project?

Mass timber is often attached to the stigma of being more expensive than other building materials. Because of this, some people assume it only makes sense for one-off projects where innovation is celebrated but repeatability is not. Is this true, or do its other benefits result in overall cost ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Moisture Management: A WIN Thought Leader Discussion

The best practice design for mass timber buildings is to keep the mass timber components warm and dry throughout the building’s construction and occupancy. This is achieved by effectively managing the exposure of the mass timber components and assemblies to moisture at all phases of manufacture, ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Shafts and Shaft Wall Solutions for Mass Timber Buildings

The rapid growth of mass timber construction in the U.S. has led to a variety of solutions for shaft wall framing. Mass timber buildings can have mass timber shaft walls, light-frame wood shaft walls, or shaft walls constructed of a different building material altogether. The prefabricated nature...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Spec Offices: Developers Share Business Case on Real Deals

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 ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Structural Design: Tips for Practicing Engineers

As mass timber’s use in commercial and multi-family projects has grown across the US, so too has the depth of information needed by the broader engineering community. This presentation will address some of the most common structural design questions related to mass timber buildings, and provide ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Warehouses: Performance, Sustainability & Aesthetic Appeal

Mass timber structural systems offer many benefits, and applications are starting to expand to the industrial building sector. How can wood contribute to the cost effectiveness of these types of buildings? What are the performance attributes of mass timber that can be beneficial when compared to ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Meeting and Exceeding Code with Wood and Mass Timber: Applications and Interpretations

Wood-frame and mass timber projects, like all construction in the U.S., have long been hindered by a strong reliance on prescriptive building code limits and less willingness to use or accept performance-based fire protection engineering. However, over the past few years, a shift has occurred. ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Meeting Sustainability Goals with Wood: From ESG to LEED to Forest Health

Across the building industry, firms and individuals are increasingly committed to reducing the negative impacts of their business on the environment while maximizing the benefits to communities interacting with the buildings. But the range of possible “environmentally friendly” solutions can ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mixed-Occupancy Buildings: Design for Density with Confidence

While mixed-use buildings—which combine multiple occupancy types and/or functions in a single structure—are common, determining how to apply their unique mix of code requirements can be a daunting task. To simplify code analysis associated with these buildings, this webinar will cover logical, ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Multi-Family Housing Markets, Trends and Innovations

Multi-family housing development is undergoing a period of significant change. Rising land and construction costs have created the need for higher-level amenities and site optimization, while labor market volatility is adding urgency to technology advancements. Meanwhile, the need to reduce ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

New for DoD Designers: Structural Design of Mass Timber Exposed to Blast Loads

Facilities constructed for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must often must be designed for blast loads in accordance with anti-terrorism requirements stipulated in UFC 4-010-01. As cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other mass timber solutions continue making inroads in federal construction ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Offset Diaphragm Design

Lateral force resisting systems in in today's structures are much more complex than they were several decades ago, incorporating multiple horizontal and vertical offsets in the diaphragms, multiple irregularities, and fewer lateral resisting elements. This two part presentation will provide a ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Offset Shear Wall Design

The complexities of modern day architectural design often necessitate irregular structural layouts with multiple offset roof and floor diaphragms, and walls. Although codes and standards recognize and address these situations, limited commentary and/or examples have been provided that clearly ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Offsite Construction in Wood: Reinventing the Role of the Design Professional

Prefabrication, modularization, offsite and industrialized construction are increasingly being used as strategies to address mounting supply chain challenges, labor shortages, and escalating costs. The market for factory-based construction continues to rise in the U.S., especially in multi-family...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Optimized Design, Efficient Construction: How One Company Successfully Constructed a Massive Timber Project

This case study presentation offers a rare opportunity to learn about mass timber from a company that built one of the largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects in the US – a five-story, 156,000-square-foot office building in Hillsboro, Oregon. Swinerton Builders, which undertook all aspects ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Optimized Design, Efficient Construction: How One Company Successfully Constructed a Massive Timber Project

This case study presentation offers a rare opportunity to learn about mass timber from a company that built one of the largest cross-laminated timber (CLT) projects in the US – a five-story, 156,000-square-foot office building in Hillsboro, Oregon. Swinerton Builders, which undertook all aspects ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Optimizing Mass Timber Connections

While mass timber projects are often motivated by their carbon benefits or exposed wood aesthetic, a deeper understanding of the cost drivers is key to their viability for most design teams. For example, the cost of connections can significantly affect the overall project cost. However, because ...

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Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Optimizing Mass Timber Designs for Application & Efficiency – Current Methods & Future Software Tools

A common feature of many successful mass timber projects is that their teams focused on design optimization early in design to effectively balance structural proficiency, aesthetics and cost. This webinar will examine best practices that emerged during this process for the team designing an ...

Learning Hours: 1.5

Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU