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Disruptive Ecologies: Mass Timber as a Lower Carbon Building Approach

Disruptive Ecologies: Mass Timber as a Lower Carbon Building Approach

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
Building the Regenerative City by Alan Organschi

Building the Regenerative City 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
Navigating the New 2025 CA WUI Code-Integration, Structure, and Enforcement

Navigating the New 2025 CA WUI Code-Integration, Structure, and Enforcement

This course introduces participants to the newly established 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface (CWUI) Code, now Part 7 of Title 24. Designed to improve clarity and consistency, the CWUI Code consolidates wildland-urban interface requirements from three separate California codes into a ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC
Introduction to Wood: Architectural Design Considerations

Introduction to Wood: Architectural Design Considerations

This presentation will provide an introductory review of architectural considerations associated with wood framing. Fire protection and sprinklers, construction types, acoustics, and building envelopes in wood-frame structures will be reviewed, with an emphasis on cost-effective, code-compliant ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
2024 IRC Significant Changes to Deck Provisions

2024 IRC Significant Changes to Deck Provisions

This presentation introduces basic design and construction methods for single-story residential wood decks focusing on the significant changes to the 2024 International Residential Code (IRC). The vertical and lateral load paths of conventional residential decks, as well as other general ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC
Home Hardening in the WUI: An Analysis of Recent Fire Testing

Home Hardening in the WUI: An Analysis of Recent Fire Testing

As an increasing number of homes are built in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), it is important to understand how residential construction performs when exposed to wildland fires. WUI zones are the areas where wildland – forests, chaparral, grassland, etc., meet or mix with human development. ...
Learning Hours: 0.5
Provider: American Wood Council
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
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
Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings

Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings

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
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
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
Understanding Mass Timber and Cold-Formed Steel Hybrid Construction

Understanding Mass Timber and Cold-Formed Steel Hybrid Construction

This seminar explores the emerging hybrid construction method combining mass timber and cold-formed steel (CFS) to optimize structural performance and cost-effectiveness. We will examine structural, fire, and acoustic performance benefits, prefabrication advantages, and construction efficiencies....
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
Contemporary Cedar Cladding: Regional Approaches and Best Practices for Residential Design

Contemporary Cedar Cladding: Regional Approaches and Best Practices for Residential Design

This course explores the innovative applications of softwood, particularly western red cedar (WRC), in contemporary residential architecture across North America. Through detailed project case studies, three acclaimed architects—Raylene Hill (RAD Architects, Nova Scotia), Laura Marion (Flight ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
High-Performance Envelopes in Wood Construction

High-Performance Envelopes in Wood Construction

This course examines the critical role of envelope design in delivering healthy, safe, and durable buildings, focusing on wood construction—primarily light-frame wood systems. Buildings designed to meet or exceed evolving energy codes and high-performance standards, such as Passive House, are ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
Type III Exterior Walls: Practical Design Approaches from an Engineer's Perspective

Type III Exterior Walls: Practical Design Approaches from an Engineer's Perspective

This educational session will focus on the unique design requirements of Type III construction related to required fire resistance and practical constructability for code compliance.  Topics will include fire-resistance-rating requirements for the interior and exterior, the impact of fire ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
Framing and Unit Layout Efficiencies in Multi-Story Wood Structures

Framing and Unit Layout Efficiencies in Multi-Story Wood Structures

As architects design increasingly creative and complex commercial and multi-family light-frame wood buildings, thorough coordination among the design team is critical. This presentation will explore the importance of gravity and lateral force-resisting systems and thoughtful design decisions ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
Wood & Well-being: Design Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Wood & Well-being: Design Strategies for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Join us for an insightful session on an innovative project at the intersection of architecture and accessibility. We'll explore design strategies behind the Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth in Vancouver, Washington, where designers followed DeafSpace principles as part of a deaf-led ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH
Designing for Durability

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Significant Changes in ANSI/AWC WFCM-2024

Significant Changes in ANSI/AWC WFCM-2024

The 2024 Wood Frame Construction Manual, designated as ANSI/AWC WFCM-2024 was approved as an American National Standard (ANS) in November 2023. This presentation will discuss how the WFCM is referenced in the International Building Code and International Residential Code and highlight changes ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Introduction to Wood: Structural Lateral Framing Design

Introduction to Wood: Structural Lateral Framing Design

This presentation will provide an introductory review of structural wood design for lateral (wind and seismic) loads, including traditional diaphragms and shear walls as well as alternate systems. Referenced codes and standards, design properties, design examples and detailing best practices ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU, PDH