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Pre-Planning and Fire Suppression of Buildings Under Construction
This program is designed to provide background and information to fire departments that may experience the construction of large area buildings in their community. Many fire departments have limited experience in planning and response to these complex buildings. This requires a thorough ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Significant Wood Design and Construction Changes to the 2018 IBC and NDS
The 2018 International Building Code (IBC) published by the International Code Council and the National Design Specification® (NDS) for Wood Construction published by the American Wood Council are both now available. This presentation will provide an overview of the significant changes to wood ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Wind Solutions - Perforated Wood Structural Panel Shear Walls
AWC's 2015 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS), 2015 Wood Frame Construction Manual (WFCM), and 2015 WFCM High Wind Guides contain provisions for the design of perforated wood structural panel shear walls. This presentation will provide examples of perforated shear wall design ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Choosing Construction Type Just Got Easier: Design Tools to Simplify IBC Chapter 5
Determining the allowable building code construction type based on for a building’s occupancy and size is fundamental to proper design. It also can be one of the most daunting code analysis steps—but it doesn’t have to be! Through a combination of building code highlights, design examples, and ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Design of Bolted Connections - DES335
This course will feature a bolt design example utilizing AWC's 2015 National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction. Topics will include connection design philosophy and behavior, an overview of 2015 NDS provisions related to bolt design including Appendix E for local stresses in ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
International Building Code (IBC) Essentials for Wood Construction Based on the 2015 IBC - BCD420
Based on the popular Code Conforming Wood Design (CCWD), a joint publication of the American Wood Council (AWC) and the International Code Council (ICC CEU), this presentation concisely summarizes the 2015 IBC for commercial and multi-family residential construction. It will explain the ...
Learning Hours: 2
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Significant Changes to AWC’s 2015 NDS® and the 2015 SDPWS
AWC's 2015 National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction and Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS) standards are referenced in US building codes and used to design wood structures worldwide. The current editions, designated ANSI/AWC NDS-2015 and ANSI/AWC SDPWS-2015,...
Learning Hours: 2
Provider: American Wood Council
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
UMass Design Building:  A Firsthand Account from Design through Owner Occupancy
Completed in early 2017, the Design Building at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first of its kind in the US. At four stories and 87,000 sf, this mass timber project features a glued-laminated (glulam) timber column-and-beam frame, mass timber lateral force-resisting systems, hybrid...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Wood Carbon Seminars - 1.1 - Introduction to the Wood Carbon Seminars
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 1.2: Trees, Forestry, and Carbon 101
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 1.3: Manufacturing and the Forest Products Industry
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 2.1: Carbon Neutrality and its Connection to the Substitution Effects of Forest Products
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 2.2: How LCA Handles Wood
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 2.3: A Deeper Dive into Wood Product LCA and Forest Resource Accounting
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 3.1: Certification and Chain-of-Custody
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 3.2: Carbon and Sustainability Tracking
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 3.3: Wood in LCIs and LCA Tools
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.25
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 4.1: Economics of Wood Products
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.5
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum
Wood Carbon Seminars - 4.2: Going Beyond Neutrality in Embodied Carbon Accounting for Forest Products
The Wood Carbon Seminars was an 12-part webinar series hosted by the Carbon Leadership Forum in the Spring of 2020.  It brought together wood experts to answer common and critical questions about the carbon impacts of wood from the building industry. The webinars were organized around four main ...
Learning Hours: 0.5
Provider: Carbon Leadership Forum