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This CEU discusses how multi-story wood construction is a cost effective and sustainable solution in today's housing market. Building code requirements and provisions for mid-rise multi-family wood-frame structures are summarized. Wood framing solutions that address issues such as shrinkage, fire protection, and seismic requirements while minimizing carbon footprint are discussed and innovations in wood framing design techniques and wood product technologies that enhance energy efficiency are explored.
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Attending AIA 2012 in Washington, DC, May 17-19, 2012? Come visit the reThink Wood Products Showcase to learn about innovative new products, like cross-laminated timber, that come from the sustainably managed forests of North America. Also come to discover design options for your non-residential projects. Participants include:
Organizations:
CSA-SFM User Group (booth 3639)
naturally:wood (booth 3539)
US WoodWorks (booth 3539)
Western Red Cedar Lumber Association (booth 3639)
Manufacturers (booth 3539):
The WoodWORKS! BC Wood Design Awards were held last week in Vancouver. To see who won and view images of the award winning structures, click here.
A new construction model for tall buildings which utilizes mass timber panels, referred to as ‘Finding the Forest Through the Trees’ (FFTT) is highlighted in this study commissioned by the Canadian Wood Council on behalf of the Wood Enterprise Coalition (a partnership of WoodWORKS! BC, FPInnovations and BC Wood Specialties). The study encourages architects, engineers and designers to push the envelope of conventional thinking about wood construction and inspires them to expand this discussion so that wood is positioned as the driving force behind a systematic change for the building industry - one with environmental, economic and common sense benefits. Click here to learn more and to download the report.
Watch naturally:wood's latest video on structural design and transportation featuring the Brentwood Town Centre Station, Lansdowne Station and the Kingsway Pedestrian Bridge. The architects and engineers take us through their journey of concept and design for these public spaces, to construction.
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This CEU discusses how wood has been used as a structural and finish material in schools and highlights the effects of wood on human health and well-being in an educational environment. It describes the environmental and economic advantages wood brings to school construction and explains how wood contributed to a school's green building goals. Click here to view.
A new Carbon Calculator by U.S. WoodWorks helps quantify the benefits of using wood in non-residential buildings. The tools shows you how wood products continue to store carbon absorbed by the trees during their growing cycle, keeping it out of the atmosphere indefinitely. The tool also demonstrates how using wood in place of fossil fuel-intensive materials such as steel and concrete also "avoids" greenhouse gases that would have been emitted during manufacturing. Click here to visit the Calculator and to learn more.
How has wood inspired or made an impact in your life? What story can you share with us about wood?
Tell us why wood is your material of choice and how it impacts the project and environment you create. Learn more here.
This CEU is a primer on the latest step in that direction: environmental product declarations (EPD), which seek to provide relevant, verified and comparable information about the environmental impacts of goods and services. Under discussion will be the basics of EPDs—the information they contain, their evolution, status in North America, and how they offer real evidence of a product's environmental footprint. Examples of EPDs will be presented with a focus on the wood industry, as will a discussion of how architects can use EPDs along with other environmental rating systems in designing more sustainable structures.
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WoodSourceBC.com was created to provide anyone who works with wood and those that create wood products, an opportunity to network with each other. The idea is that the more people talk with each other, the more opportunities people have to accomplish what they set out to do. Whether that is selling logs, buying lumber, building homes, or creating fine furniture, the website offers the chance to make new business relationships closer to home and in others parts of the world. Click here for more info.
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