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Cross Laminated Timber Shear Wall Example
New provisions for Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) shear wall design are included in the 2021 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (2021 SDPWS), the culmination of many years of research and testing. This program will present a design example for a CLT shear wall, including panel capacity,...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
This course is intended for professional architects and engineers who desire to improve their knowledge of the sustainability of using wood as a building material in comparison with other substitutable products. While ecosystems, supply chains, and building materials are complex, using natural, ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
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
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
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 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
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
Beauty and Strength: An Examination of Western Red Cedar Finishes
This course will explore mass timber construction, including the different types of mass timber products that are manufactured from Douglas fir, spruce-pine-fir, and Southern pine species; their performance and environmental benefits; and applications for this type of construction. The course ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Shrinkage and Vertical Movements in Multi-Story Wood-Frame Structures
In light-frame wood buildings of three or more stories, cumulative shrinkage can be significant and have an impact on the function and performance of finishes, openings, mechanical/electrical/plumbing (MEP) systems, and structural connections. However, as more designers look to light-frame ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Type III Construction for Multifamily: Best Practices and Detailing for Success
As demand for multi-family housing grows, there is pressure on building designers to increase the unit density of projects while maintaining affordability. There may also be the need to integrate seamlessly into neighborhoods comprised predominantly of low- and mid-rise buildings. Type III ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings: Trends, Drivers, Challenges
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
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
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
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
Building the Regenerative City, Presented 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
Disruptive Ecologies: Mass Timber as a Lower-Carbon Building Approach, Presented by Susan Jones
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
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...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
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
Mass Timber Construction Management: Design Through Project Close Out
Innovations in mass timber construction are offering new opportunities for the building industry. Products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glue-laminated timber (glulam) have high strength-to-weight ratios, allowing them to replace more traditional construction materials while providing ...
Learning Hours: 3
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU, ICC CEU
What’s New and What’s Next for Wood Design and Construction: Mass Timber Design Specifics - Track 1
Track 1 of 3. See Learning Objectives for this track's content.  More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the building development, design and construction communities continue to experience unprecedented change. Demands for multi-unit housing continue to rise, as do land, material and ...
Learning Hours: 3
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU