By Tim Buhler. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: Yes. We will address how builder’s risk insurance works, why it is different for wood and best practices we can follow.
Courses
All course learning content is free for Students, Instructors and Industry Professionals. Courses can be accessed by clicking the Read More button at the bottom of each course description. However, to earn course credits you must first pass a quiz. To access course quiz you must register in the Wood WORKS! eLearning Centre and enroll in course. Both registration and enrolment are free.
Acoustic Considerations for Wood Construction
By Mihkel Toome, Daniel Lyzun and Acoustatech – Format: Power Point Video – Length: 1.5 Hours – Downloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC and BC Housing – This presentation will discuss acoustics in wood structures and the value that can be added through early planning and good acoustic design.
An Overview of The Canadian Mass Timber Technical Guide
Presented by Orlagh McHugh and Ron McDougall. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: Yes. Join us for an introduction to a new, comprehensive Canadian technical reference guide to mass timber. Canadaâs inherent building-with-wood culture lays a solid foundation for the continued growth of mass timber construction. Learn more about why mass timber is right for your next project, the design process and building systems, code acceptance, our expertise and more.
Application of CLT in custom homes and mixed use residential buildings
By Mehrdad Jahangiri and Allison DenToom – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – Handout: No – Follow the journey of introducing CLT into high endâcustom homes and mixedâuse residential projects in the Greater Vancouver Area.
Art Gallery of Ontario Transformation
By Crispin Howes Format: PowerPoint – Video Length: One Hour – Dowloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Transformation AGO is the recently completed renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario by Frank Gehry. Crispin Howes discusses the technology used to design and build this complex structure.
Art Gallery of Ontario- Use of Advanced Technology & Design
By David Moses – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Dowloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Creating the AGO curtain’s complex wood geometry was made possible by the use of CNC machines and 3D CAD systems.
Aspen Art Museum – Creating an Innovative Wood Structure
By Gregory R. Kingsley – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Dowloadable Handout: No – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – This case study presentation will describe the innovative design and construction of the Aspen Art Museum wood structure, including paths explored but not chosen for the final design.
BC Fire Safety Requirements for Wood Buildings
By Ineke Van Zeeland – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Handout: – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing, EIC – This presentation will discuss building code requirements related to the use of wood products in buildings designed under Part 3 (Fire Protection, Occupant Safety and Accessibility) of the British Columbia Building Code, particularly in those buildings required to be of noncombustible construction.
Benefits of Building with Mass Timber
By Duncan Purvis – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing Informal CPD, EIC – Handout: No. This course will discuss the unseen and enduring benefits of building with mass timber: building sustainably, adding value and creating a legacy.
Bergen in a Wood Construction Fever
By Rune Abrahamsen – Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – This presentation examines Treet a 14 storey timber apartment building in Norway which is scheduled to be built during 2014. The building will be one of the tallest timber buildings in the world.
