Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-being

Occupant health and well-being is more important than ever, especially given the fact that Americans, on average, are spending approximately 90 percent of their time indoors. As a result, building professionals are rethinking how we design, use and occupy buildings. COVID-19 is also changing the ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Designing Modern Wood Schools

In 2019, an estimated $98 billion was spent on educational construction, including new buildings and structures as well as renovations, site work and all associated utility work. School construction, and educational facilities accounted for about 101 million square feet of the nonresidential ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Multi-family, Mid-rise Wood Buildings

Demand for multi-family housing continues to play an important role in the overall U.S. construction market. While dominant in single family residential construction, the cost-effective, code-compliant and sustainable attributes of wood construction apply to mid-rise multi-family projects, too. ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

The Role of Wood Products in Green Building

Architects can incorporate green building techniques into their designs through their choice of building materials. Material choice greatly affects the environmental impact of buildings, both during construction and over the building’s lifecycle. Wood is a renewable, durable building material ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

The Business Case for Mass Timber: Completing the Value Proposition

Would you like to pitch sustainable mass timber to a client? Are you wondering how mass timber might pencil in a project pro forma? If so, attend this session to learn how to complete value proposition for developers and owners. The aesthetic differentiation and biophilic benefits of mass timber ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: WoodWorks

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building

Buildings consume nearly half the energy produced in the United States, use three-quarters of the electricity and account for nearly half of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Due to these impacts, building for environmental sustainability is critical. This carbon footprint course explains the ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Wood-Frame Shear Walls and SDPWS

Experimental studies of cyclic performance of wood-frame shear walls give insight into structural performance and have informed recent changes implemented in the 2021 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS). Experimental results for 10d short nails, shear wall end post details, and...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: American Wood Council

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Brief Introduction to Wood Material Science: Wood as a Structural Engineering Material

Wood material science influences its behavior from harvest through the use phase and beyond. This course will provide an introduction to wood material science, wood-moisture relations, and wood anatomy. The types of wood products structural engineers may use in designs, and the standards ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: American Wood Council

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

Mass Timber Structures: Codes and Adoptions

With encouragement from the U.S. wood products industry, in 2016, the International Code Council (ICC) formally began to explore the feasibility of adding provisions for tall mass timber buildings in the U.S. model building codes. Since that time, the ICC Tall Wood Building (TWB) Ad Hoc ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: American Wood Council

Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU

CLT in Residential Typologies, Presented by Jennifer Bonner

This presentation will examine the use of CLT in residential typologies - with a focus on projects that utilize space and geometry in a unique way. The presentation will focus on the advantages and disadvantages of using CLT and the opportunities where CLT was specified in various case studies....

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

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

Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability

This course will consider traditional wood framing and mass timber systems in the context of resilience and sustainability in multiple ways. This includes performance during and after earthquakes, hurricanes and other disasters, as well as wood’s light carbon footprint and low embodied energy. It...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Designing for Earthquakes

Wood is a proven choice for seismic-resistive construction. Earthquakes cannot be prevented but sound design and construction based on research and compliance with building code requirements can reduce their effects. The relative good performance of wood buildings is often attributed to the ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Designing for High Winds

All buildings are at risk of experiencing damage during high winds. Each structure, with its own unique set of characteristics, reacts differently to wind loads. However, wood is conducive to meeting the challenges of wind-resistive design. For example, wood can carry substantially greater ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Introduction to Wood Building Systems

Whether designing for light frame or mass timber structural systems, project teams that design with wood can benefit from the material’s versatility, sustainable supply chain, and the benefits to occupants. Designing with wood can also meet thermal, acoustic, seismic and fire performance goals. ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Maximizing the Design Benefits of Podium Construction

Throughout North America, specifying podium construction is an increasingly popular option for dense, urban areas, particularly when projects require infill scenarios. Limited space and rising costs of land and construction materials, such as concrete and steel, have prompted developers and ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings

This continuing education course is intended for building designers who want to learn more about the use of wood framing systems in low-rise commercial buildings. This course provides practical information that can be applied to projects, starting with code-related topics including cost ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

The Business Case for Building with Wood

Several converging trends are presenting both design challenges and new market opportunities. Cities are getting denser, spurring mixed-use projects that combine ground-level retail and several stories of residential units. Firms are under pressure to innovate, implement lean practices, and ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Using Wood to Achieve Thermal Performance Goals

Thermal performance contributes to a range of important goals for most projects, including energy efficiency, comfort, durability, code compliance, structural integrity, and sustainable outcomes. Designing commercial and residential buildings with wood not only meets thermal performance ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW

Wood and the Indoor Environment

The objectives of sustainable design are broader than just environmental effects, having come to embrace issues of human health and performance. As sedentary and service-related work becomes more prevalent in our society, the amount of time people spend inside buildings increases—the average ...

Learning Hours: 1

Provider: Think Wood

Credits: AIA LU/HSW