Continuing Education for Architects
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Resources for Designing and Building with Wood: Continuing Education for Architects
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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Creating Beautiful, Accessible, and Equitable Spaces with Mass Timber Presented by Chandra Robinson
This course delves into the innovative use of mass timber in architecture. -
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. -
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). -
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. -
Building the Regenerative City
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. -
The Woodpecker's Delight: Nader Tehrani on the Role of Wood Architecture in Culture and Ecology
This guest lecture is presented by Nader Tehrani, Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. -
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. -
Steel-Timber Hybrid Highrise Buildings: Trends, Drivers, Challenges
This pre-recorded lecture will examine the recent trend towards steel-timber hybrids—as a subset of the wider trend towards mass timber—in high rise buildings. -
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. -
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. -
Architecting Change: Design Strategies for a Healthy, Resilient, Climate Smart Future
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Designing Beneficial Spaces for Living, Working, and Well-being
Occupant health and well-being is more important than ever. This CEU explores architecture designed to improve the well-being of building occupants. -
Multifamily Mid-Rise Wood Buildings
This course explores the sustainability and economic benefits, and code requirements of using wood construction for mid-rise multifamily or mixed use buildings. -
The Role of Wood Products in Green Building
Material choice greatly affects the environmental impact of buildings, both during construction and over the building’s lifecycle. Learn about tools and certifications for green building in this CEU. -
How to Calculate the Wood Carbon Footprint of a Building
This course explains the principal methods and tools that are used to assess carbon footprint in the context of building materials. It includes a primer on product terminology and highlights ways to track and assure wood comes from sustainable forests. -
Maximizing the Design Benefits of Podium Construction
Limited space and rising costs have prompted developers and architects to re-think building design. See how podium construction allows for greater density and more rentable square footage while also reducing material and labor costs. -
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. -
Design and Construction of Taller Wood Buildings
With rising demand for new urban buildings, and increased interest in sustainable and efficient construction, the potential for tall wood buildings is growing. Learn more in this AIA accredited CEU. -
Wood and Indoor Environment
Discover how using wood as a structural or finish material impacts indoor air quality, acoustics and well-being. This course also covers research supporting the growing trend of biophilic design. -
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
As green building has evolved beyond energy efficiency, selection of structural materials is seeing increased focus. Learn how wood from sustainably managed forests is viewed as a responsible choice. -
The Business Case for Building with Wood
Developers face tough challenges with reducing construction costs, securing tenants and differentiating properties in a crowded market. Learn five ways wood construction is helping meet market demands. -
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. -
Opportunities for Wood in Low-Rise Commercial Buildings
Learn more about the use of wood framing systems in low-rise commercial projects, including code implications, cost impacts and implications of multi-tenant occupancies. -
Designing Sustainable, Prefabricated Buildings
Learn how prefabricated wood components can help to solve many design and engineering challenges such as material and process efficiency, environmental performance and life safety. -
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.