Continuing Education for Architects: High-Performance Green Building
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Resources for Designing and Building with Wood: Continuing Education for Architects
The Role of Wood in High-Performing Buildings
Discover how designing with wood can help you meet a range of goals, from thermal performance and flexible design to energy efficiency, durability and code compliance. Wood is also a fire-resistant building material. Learn how wood can contribute to high-performance green building, including LEED-certified building and other certification systems.
We’re dedicated to helping architects and designers discover the power of using wood in new applications. Whether you’re interested in using wood in multi-family condominiums, commercial interiors or mass timber framing, Think Wood has the AIA and GCBI accredited courses to support your needs.
Check out our continuing education for architects and see what piques your interest.
Check out our continuing education for architects and see what piques your interest.
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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. -
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. -
Designing for Earthquakes and High Winds
Properly designed and constructed wood structures that comply with building code requirements are resilient, performing with minimal damage while protecting occupants during both seismic and high wind events. -
Using Wood to Achieve Thermal Performance Goals
Discover how wood meets and exceeds performance requirements for commercial and nonresidential buildings, including energy efficiency, comfort, durability, code compliance, structural integrity and sustainable outcomes. -
Introduction to Wood Building Systems
Whether designing for light frame or mass timber structural systems, see how wood can help increase your project's versatility, sustainable supply chain, benefits to occupants, as well as thermal, acoustic, seismic and fire performance. -
Optimizing Acoustic Performance of Wood Buildings
Noise has a great impact on the built environment and its occupants, with numerous exterior and interior sources. Discover ways to integrate acoustic design to create high performance wood buildings that also enhance occupant health and well-being. -
Designing for High Winds
Discover techniques for strengthening buildings against high wind forces by addressing fundamental interactions between wind loads and building material properties. -
Designing for Earthquakes
Earthquakes cannot be prevented, but sound design, research and code compliance can reduce their effects. See how wood has become a proven choice for seismic-resistive construction. -
Designing for Durability
Even as the use of wood is expanding, one significant characteristic of wood buildings is often underestimated: their durability. Learn design and construction techniques to control moisture and insect impacts. -
Building Resilience: Expanding the Concept of Sustainability
Explore wood construction in the context of resilience and sustainability, including performance during natural disasters, building code compliance, and the relevance of wood’s light carbon footprint and low embodied energy.