Common Challenges in Wood Lateral System Layouts
May 3, 2022 – National Online Event. This presentation will explore lateral system layout challenges that often occur during the schematic design of wood-frame buildings.
Free
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Lateral Design for Mass Timber Structures: How to Do It, How It’s Been Done
May 5, 2022 – National Online Event. This presentation will provide an overview of the standardized lateral systems for CLT, as well as design tools and resources such as the CLT Diaphragm Design Guide, soon to be published by WoodWorks.
Free
Mass Timber in Multi-Family Housing: Is It a Good Fit for Your Project?
May 19, 2022 – Regional Online Event (Northwest). Learn what new opportunities will the 2021 International Building Code create for mass timber housing in the 6-18 story range?
Designing and Building with Mass Timber: Design, Planning and Performance
May 20, 2022 – Regional Online Event (CO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WY). This presentation seeks to build on this openness and environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber products, planning, design and implementation to maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
80 M Tour + Networking Happy Hour
80M 80 M St SE, Washington, DC, United StatesMay 25, 2022 – Building Tour (Washington, DC). Join John O’Donald, WoodWorks Regional Director on a tour of 80 M Street, the first commercial office building in Washington, D.C. to feature mass timber new construction.
Mass Timber Construction: Products, Design, Logistics and Risk Analysis
Michigan State University 642 Red Cedar Road, STEM Teaching Learning Facility, East Lansing, MI, United StatesMay 26, 2022 – Regional Event (East Lansing, MI) – online and in-person options. This seminar covering various topics of building with mass timber will be offered in-person at MSU in East Lansing MI. This will be followed by a quick lunch and then an optional tour of the award winning MSU STEM Teaching Learning Facility. The seminar portion of the event will also be offered online for those that can't attend in-person.
Designing and Building with Mass Timber: Design, Planning and Performance
June 3, 2022 – Regional Online Event – TX, KS, AR, MO, OK
This presentation seeks to build on this openness and environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber products, planning, design and implementation to maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
Concealed Spaces in Wood-Frame and Mass Timber Construction
June 8, 2022 – National Online Event. This webinar will address these questions and provide practical solutions and details for the protection of concealed spaces in multi-family and commercial wood construction.
Free
Designing and Building with Mass Timber: Design, Planning and Performance
June 13, 2022 - Southeast Region. This presentation seeks to build on this openness and environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber products, planning, design and implementation to maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
Early Design Decisions: Priming Mass Timber Projects for Success
June 14, 2022, Regional Online Event – NY, NJ, PA. This presentation will walk through early project decisions and design steps, focusing on how to optimize projects for mass timber and how one early decision can influence others.
Mass Timber: Early Design Decisions for Successful Multi-Family Housing
2757 Hartland Road, Falls Church, VA, United StatesJune 15, 2022 – Regional Event (Falls Church, VA) – online and in-person options including an optional networking event. This presentation will take a detailed look at the variety of mass timber products available and look at whether mass timber multi-family projects make financial sense in the 4-6 story range, used in conjunction with light wood-frame systems.
Designing and Building with Mass Timber: Design, Planning and Performance
June 17, 2022 – CA-South, AZ, NM. This presentation seeks to build on this openness and environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber products, planning, design and implementation to maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
Offsite Construction in Wood: Reinventing the Role of the Design Professional
July 13, 2022 - National Online Event. This webinar examines how the roles of architect and engineer are changing to meet the demand of offsite construction workflows.
Timber House Tour – 670 Union St + Networking Happy Hour
Timber House 670 Union St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesJuly 14, 2022 – Brooklyn, NY. Timber House is the first mass-timber condominium in the New York region. It is a six-story, 14-unit building, constructed with glulam columns and beams, and GLT floorplates.
Early Design Decisions: Priming Mass Timber Projects for Success
Burwell Center for Career Achievement 2190 E Asbury Ave, Room #340, Denver, CO, United StatesJuly 19, 2022 – Regional Online & In-Person (Denver, CO) Seminar & Tour
We will walk through early project decisions and design steps and then tour the University of Denver’s new Burwell Center for Career Achievement.
Designing and Building with Mass Timber: Design, Planning and Performance
July 22, 2022 – Regional Online Event (OH, IN, KY, MI). This presentation seeks to build on this openness and environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber products, planning, design and implementation to maximize the benefits these buildings can deliver.
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
July 27, 2022 – Regional Online Event (NC, SC, TN). Design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
Protective Design in Mass Timber Construction
July 27, 2022 – National Online Event. This special presentation provides a detailed look at mass timber products, building codes, and the current protective design landscape as it applies to government agencies.
Free
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
August 9, 2022 - Regional Online (TX). Design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
General Contractor’s Guide to Mass Timber Project Estimation
August 12, 2022 – National Online Event. This presentation seeks to build on the environment of shared learning, providing an overview of mass timber estimation and bidding processes.
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
August 16, 2022 – Online Regional Event (CO, MT, NE, ND, SD, WY). This presentation will cover some of the design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
August 17, 2022 – Online Regional Event (Pacific Northwest). This presentation will cover some of the design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
August 18, 2022 – Regional Online Event (CA-South, AZ, NM). Design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
1030 Music Row Tour + Networking Happy Hour
1030 Music Row 1030 Music Row, Nashville, TN, United StatesAugust 24, 2022 – Nashville, TN. 1030 Music Row is the first timber-frame Class A office space in Nashville. This one-of-a-kind creatively engineered design, crafted from Douglas Fir glulam columns and beams and dowel-laminated timber floors.
Mid-Rise Design: Optimizing Size, Framing Efficiently with Engineered Wood
August 30, 2022 – Online Regional Event (NY, NJ, PA). This presentation will cover some of the design considerations associated with mid-rise wood-frame buildings, including how to maximize height and area through the use of sprinklers, open frontage, sloping sites, podiums and mezzanines.
Mass Timber in Multi-Family Housing: Is It a Good Fit for Your Project?
September 7, 2022 – Regional Online & In-Person Event (Missoula, MT). Typical multi-family housing developments are in the range of 4-6 stories, often utilizing podium or pedestal construction with 1-2 stories of steel and concrete topped with 3-5 stories of light wood framing.
Advancing Mass Timber Construction 2022
September 12-14, Boston, MA - Advancing Mass Timber Construction 2022 will uncover the latest innovations and best practices for delivering higher quality, more sustainable mass timber buildings.
Common Challenges in Light Wood-Frame Gravity Structural Design
September 15, 2022 – National Online Event. This presentation will explore common challenges and solutions for gravity framing structural design of light-frame multi-story buildings.
Mass Timber Research Workshop
Best Western Plus InnTowner Madison 2424 University Ave, MadisonSeptember 20-22, 2022 – Madison, WI. The purpose of this workshop is to review mass timber past and present research, identify and prioritize new research needs and, in so doing, help shape future research efforts in North America.
Women in Wood Design and Construction Networking Event
SF LGBT Center 1800 Market Street, 202 - Rainbow Room, San Francisco, CA, United StatesSeptember 20, 2022 – Regional Networking Event (San Francisco, CA). Join WoodWorks and Regional Director Chelsea Drenick, SE, for a networking event celebrating women who are driving innovation in wood projects in the Bay Area.