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Aspen Art Museum: Design and Construction of the Wood Roof Structure

Aspen Art Museum: Design and Construction of the Wood Roof Structure

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Building Enclosure Design: Fundamentals, Components and Assemblies

Building Enclosure Design: Fundamentals, Components and Assemblies

Building enclosures are responsible for controlling heat flow, air flow, vapor flow and a number of other elements. Through a combination of building science fundamentals and current research, this presentation will explore design considerations associated with wood-frame building enclosures and ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Design of Mass Timber Diaphragms and the new CLT Diaphragm Design Guide

Design of Mass Timber Diaphragms and the new CLT Diaphragm Design Guide

When striving for material efficiency, the design of mass timber floor and roof systems to resist horizontal wind and seismic loading through diaphragm action is an important consideration. The design of diaphragms with mass timber panels typically follows one of two load path strategies.  For ...
Learning Hours: 1.25
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Design Strategies for Affordable Mass Timber Multi-Family Housing Design Example

Design Strategies for Affordable Mass Timber Multi-Family Housing Design Example

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Designing Durable Balconies: Weather, Fire, Structure

Designing Durable Balconies: Weather, Fire, Structure

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Detailing Mass Timber Structures to Minimize Impacts of Differential Movements

Detailing Mass Timber Structures to Minimize Impacts of Differential Movements

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, ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Embodied Carbon Assessments of Wood: From Early-Stage Analysis to WBLCA

Embodied Carbon Assessments of Wood: From Early-Stage Analysis to WBLCA

More and more often, carbon calculations are an important component of building design as ownership and design teams strive for more sustainable structures. As architects and engineers embrace carbon accounting as part of the design process, it is important to understand how to correctly account ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Exploring Efficient Design for a Mass Timber Office: The Nail Laminated Timber Solution

Exploring Efficient Design for a Mass Timber Office: The Nail Laminated Timber Solution

The architectural and environmental success of The Bullitt Center in Seattle has made heavy timber office buildings a topic of great interest within the design community. Now, with ground broken on a new 7-story example in Minneapolis, cost-effectiveness can be added to the potential benefits ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
FTAO Analysis for Complex Shear Wall Openings

FTAO Analysis for Complex Shear Wall Openings

Current methods of Force Transfer Around Openings (FTAO) analysis only allow for openings of the same height in exterior shear walls. However, today’s penchant for more openings of different sizes requires a more flexible method that allows for more complex wall layouts. The original method of ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Lateral 101 for Architects

Lateral 101 for Architects

This is an introductory course designed to help architects better understand the basic structural nature of buildings under lateral forces which can in effect help create more efficient plan layouts, potentially reduce costs, and increase the lateral performance of the building.  A 2-story ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Mass Timber Building Systems: Understanding the Options

Mass Timber Building Systems: Understanding the Options

Mass timber represents a rapidly advancing technology that can be utilized as an alternative to steel and concrete to frame a variety of mid- and high-rise building types. This presentation provides an overview of available mass timber systems, with an emphasis on their advantages and unique ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Mass Timber Moisture Management: A WIN Thought Leader Discussion

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, ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Mass Timber Spec Offices: Developers Share Business Case on Real Deals

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Mass Timber Warehouses: Performance, Sustainability & Aesthetic Appeal

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Meeting and Exceeding Code with Wood and Mass Timber

Meeting and Exceeding Code with Wood and Mass Timber

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. ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Meeting Sustainability Goals with Wood: From ESG to LEED to Forest Health

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Multi-Family Housing Markets, Trends and Innovations

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Offset Diaphragms and Shear Walls

Offset Diaphragms and Shear Walls

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 ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Optimizing Mass Timber Designs for Application & Efficiency

Optimizing Mass Timber Designs for Application & Efficiency

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
Practical Considerations for Shear Wall Connections and Details in Light-Frame Wood Structures

Practical Considerations for Shear Wall Connections and Details in Light-Frame Wood Structures

Light-frame wood structures typically rely on wood-sheathed shear walls as the lateral force-resisting system to withstand wind and seismic forces. While many resources exist to help engineers determine the load demand on these walls, specific connections and details are often rooted in ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU