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Mixed-Occupancy Buildings: Design for Density with Confidence

Mixed-Occupancy Buildings: Design for Density with Confidence

While mixed-use buildings—which combine multiple occupancy types and/or functions in a single structure—are common, determining how to apply their unique mix of code requirements can be a daunting task. To simplify code analysis associated with these buildings, this webinar will cover logical, ...
Learning Hours: 1
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
Multi-family, Mid-rise Wood Buildings

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
New for DoD Designers: Structural Design of Mass Timber Exposed to Blast Loads

New for DoD Designers: Structural Design of Mass Timber Exposed to Blast Loads

Facilities constructed for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must often must be designed for blast loads in accordance with anti-terrorism requirements stipulated in UFC 4-010-01. As cross-laminated timber (CLT) and other mass timber solutions continue making inroads in federal construction ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Offset Diaphragm Design

Offset Diaphragm Design

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
Offset Shear Wall Design

Offset Shear Wall Design

The complexities of modern day architectural design often necessitate irregular structural layouts with multiple offset roof and floor diaphragms, and walls. Although codes and standards recognize and address these situations, limited commentary and/or examples have been provided that clearly ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Offsite Construction in Wood: Reinventing the Role of the Design Professional

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
Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings

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
Optimized Design, Efficient Construction: How One Company Successfully Constructed a Massive Timber Project

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
Optimized Design, Efficient Construction: How One Company Successfully Constructed a Massive Timber Project

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
Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings

Learn how design teams can integrate acoustic design to create high-performance wood buildings that also enhance the health and well-being of occupants. Noise has a great impact on the built environment and its occupants, with numerous exterior and interior sources. Acoustic design in wood ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: Think Wood
Credits: AIA LU/HSW
Optimizing Mass Timber Connections

Optimizing Mass Timber Connections

While mass timber projects are often motivated by their carbon benefits or exposed wood aesthetic, a deeper understanding of the cost drivers is key to their viability for most design teams. For example, the cost of connections can significantly affect the overall project cost. However, because ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Optimizing Mass Timber Designs for Application & Efficiency – Current Methods & Future Software Tools

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
Outcomes of ICC Tall Wood AdHoc Committee: Mass Timber Provisions in the 2021 I-Codes

Outcomes of ICC Tall Wood AdHoc Committee: Mass Timber Provisions in the 2021 I-Codes

In early 2016, the ICC Board of Directors approved the creation of an ad hoc committee to explore the building science of tall wood buildings with the scope being to investigate the feasibility of and take action to develop code changes for tall wood buildings. Since that time, the Tall Wood ...
Learning Hours: 1.5
Provider: American Wood Council
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Part 1: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 1: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 1 of the series will address code requirements and relative stiffness issues associated with cantilever diaphragms in wood structures. Traditionally, wood-frame diaphragms are designed as flexible, meaning that shear forces are transferred to vertical-resisting systems based on tributary ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Part 2: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 2: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 2 of this series will introduce an open front diaphragm design example that will be worked through in the remaining webinars. Topics addressed will include seismic force calculation and distribution, and preliminary shear wall design taking into account nominal shear wall stiffness. The ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Part 3: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 3: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 3 of this series will take an in-depth look at cantilever diaphragm design processes. Using calculation steps per ASCE 7 and the 2015 edition of the American Wood Council’s Special Design Provisions for Wind & Seismic (SDPWS), diaphragm force distribution will be used to illustrate diaphragm...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Part 4: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

Part 4: A Design Example of a Wood Cantilever Diaphragm

This webinar will conclude the open front diaphragm design example by analyzing the degree of torsional irregularity and amplification of accidental torsion. ASCE 7 and SDPWS irregularity code triggers and design impacts will be explained, and verification of the redundancy factor will be ...
Learning Hours: 1
Provider: WoodWorks
Credits: AIA LU/HSW, ICC CEU
Passive House Design for Mass Timber and Wood-Frame Multi-Family Projects

Passive House Design for Mass Timber and Wood-Frame Multi-Family Projects

What is passive house design and why is it a good fit for multi-family projects? How can the use of mass timber and light wood-frame structural wall and roof framing materials influence and benefit a project’s energy performance? What are the critical building enclosure assemblies and details ...
Learning Hours: 1
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