By Brian Court. Course Number WWOL017, Year Created 2014. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, HPO, EIC – Handout: Yes. The Bullitt Center, a six-storey heavy timber building, recently competed in Seattle, is predicted to be the world’s most energy efficient commercial building. In this presentation, Project Architect Brian Court will give a short overview of the LBC, discuss the design strategies for the Bullitt Center, and highlight structural and environmental virtues of the heavy timber structural system such as renewability, contribution to energy efficiency, and light carbon footprint.
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.
018. Energy Efficient Wood Curtain Walls
By Francois Bergeron. Course Number WWOL018, Year Created 2014. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Downloadable Handout: No – Credit: AIA, Canadian Provincial Architect Associations and EIC. This presentation demonstrates the advances in HEE glazed facade complying to the most stringent energy codes in the world. It provides an understanding of Facade System Design Flexibility by combination of various materials.
019. Pre-Stress in Wood Systems
By David Bowick. Course Number WWOL019, Year Created 2014. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Credits: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – Handout: Yes. This presentation explores the positional of prestress in wood systems.
020. Wood Fibre Insulation
By Niall Crosson. Course Number WWOL020, Year Created 2014 Format: PowerPoint Video, Length: One Hour, Credits: AIA, Provincial Architect Associations, EIC. This presentation will provide a background into the history of woodfibre softboard insulation, its range of unique attributes and how this adaptable material is employed in high performance building assemblies.
021. Forestry Myth Busters, a Practitioners Perspective
By Al Stinson. Course Number WWOL021, Year Created 2014 Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Downloadable Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, EIC – In this presentation, Al tackles some existing myths and misconceptions about modern-day forestry operations.
022. Bigger Better Faster; Large wood structures need efficient solutions
By Leander Bathon. Course Number WWOL022, Year Created 2014. Format: PowerPoint Video – Length: One Hour – Handout: Yes – Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing and EIC – This presentation demonstrates that due to the development of innovative connection systems the timber industry is now able to compete with those main stream building materials like steel and concrete by matching their performance and cost and outperforming their sustainability.
025. Art Gallery of Ontario Transformation
By Crispin Howes. Course Number WWOL025, Year Created 2012. 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.
026. Art Gallery of Ontario- Use of Advanced Technology & Design
028. Bergen in a Wood Construction Fever
By Rune Abrahamsen. Course Number WWOL028, Year Created 2014. 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.
029. Cross-Laminated Timber Symposium
By Richard Desjardins, Gerhard Schickhofer and 18 additional presenters. Course Number WWOL029, Year Created 2011. Format: Twenty Presentation Videos – Length: Nine Hours – Handouts: Yes Credit: AIA, all Canadian Provincial Architect Associations, BC Housing and EIC – Recorded presentations of multiple speakers on a broad range of topics featured at the Cross-Laminated Timber Symposium.
